Offers from publishers
Right now I have written offers from six different publishers (so far). Yes, six. Yes, all of them well-known publishing houses. I know, I’m gobsmacked too. I’ve spent the last few weeks talking with each of them, on the phone and face-to-face – wonderful and lengthy conversations about writing, editing, history and Elizabeth Macarthur. I…
Online Discussion with Lucy Treloar, author of Salt Creek
Last night HARDCOPY participants (past and present) were lucky enough to take part in an online Facebook discussion with Australian novelist Lucy Treloar. Here are some of the highlights of Lucy’s responses (reproduced with the permission of Lucy, and of the HARDCOPY project officer Nigel Featherstone.) For 90 minutes Lucy was inundated with questions and…
Biographer Brenda Niall wins Australian Literature Society Gold Medal
Last night the Australian Literature Society (ALS) awarded its Gold Medal to biographer Brenda Niall, for Mannix, her biography of Daniel Mannix, the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 until 1963. The ALS Gold Medal is awarded annually for an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year. The Medal was inaugurated by the Australian…
2016 National Biography Award shortlist announced
The shortlist for Australia’s most prestigious biography prize was announced yesterday. The shortlisted titles are: Battarbee and Namatjira, Martin Edmond (Giramondo) Comrade Ambassador: Whitlam’s Beijing Envoy, Stephen FitzGerald (Melbourne University Publishing) Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather, Karen Lamb (University of Queensland Press) Mannix, Brenda Niall (Text Publishing) Bearing Witness: The Remarkable Life of Charles…