Prizes – Hazel Rowley, Stella and more
The 2015 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship was won by Caroline Baum. Baum, a freelance journalist, broadcaster and editorial director of Booktopia, will use the $10,000 fellowship to write a biography of Lucie Dreyfus, the wife of Alfred Dreyfus, who was falsely charged with treason in the late 19th century. The Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship encourages a…
Newsflash – Stella Prize Longlist Announced
The 2015 Stella Prize longlist: Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke The Strays by Emily Bitto Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey This House of Grief by Helen Garner Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett The Invisible History of the Human Race by Christine Kenneally The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna The Golden Age…
Newsflash – Historian Alan Atkinson Wins $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature
Australian historian Dr Alan Atkinson has won the overall $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for his third volume of The Europeans in Australia. He also won the non-fiction category. Read more about his win here. The other winners were: Non-fiction ($25,000): The Europeans in Australia: Volume III, Nation, Alan Atkinson Fiction ($25,000): To Name Those Lost, Rohan…
Forming the writing habit
Over at the fascinating blog Historians are Past Caring, Dr Marion Diamond has shared some writing techniques that have worked for her. I am inspired! As a result I aim to spend 20 minutes every day working on my Elizabeth Macarthur biography. And slightly less time in my hammock swing. Sigh. I love my hammock…