ABR
Competitions
The
Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay
Australian
Book Review (ABR) and Copyright Agency Limited
(CAL) are delighted to seek entries for the third Calibre
Prize for an Outstanding Essay. With a first prize of $10,000,
this is one of the world's major essay competitions.
The Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay is designed as
an inclusive competition. We welcome essays from leading writers
and commentators, but also from previously unpublished writers.
All non-fiction subjects are eligible: from life writing and
literary studies, to history and politics and environmental
studies, to anthropology and popular science. Essayists must
reside in Australia or be Australian citizens living overseas.
ABR and CAL look forward to fostering and rewarding
new insights into our literature, our culture and our society.
Entries close 31 August 2008.
Click
here for guidelines and application form. Click
here for detailed Media Release announcing the Prize.
The
2008 ABR Reviewing Competition
It's
on again - the 2008 ABR Reviewing Competition - and the
first prize is now worth $1000!
Reviews should be 800 words and of any book originally published
since January 2006. All categories of books are eligible, including
fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children's and YA books.
Entries close 30 June 2008.
Please click
here for full details in the entry form.
Recent competitions
ABR
Poetry Prize 2008
In its short
life, this competition has become one of the most prestigious
poetry competition in the country. Now it is even more lucrative,
with combined prizes of $4000 and a first prize of $3000.
Entries are now invited for the fourth ABR Poetry Prize.
Entries are now closed. The previous winners were Stephen
Edgar, Alex Skovron and Judith Bishop.
The winner will be announced in the April 2008 issue of ABR.
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Current
reviews
Glyn Davis: Don Watson's American
Journeys
'There are passages in this book
so good they
demand to be read aloud, aphorisms worth
turning over and examining closely, the distillation
of a life thinking about the glamorous America
first seen in childhood...'
Read
full review.
Peter
Rose on Jacqueline Kent's
An Exacting Heart
'Hephzibah's
story is much less well known and
frequently overlooked in Yehudi's biographies,
partly because of the nature of her two marriages
(which drew her, intermittently, away from the
recital hall)...' Read
full review.
Susan
Sheridan on Kate
Llewellyn:
The Dressmaker's Daughter
'This is one woman's story, and it is, as well, the
story of many women of her generation. These
are the author's South Australian years...'
Read
full review.
Geoffrey
Blainey on
A Biographical Dictionary
of Australian and New Zealand Economists
'Why has Australia produced or been the arena
for so many influential economists? The book
does not offer a direct answer. One reason must
be the deep economic troubles which the nation
has periodically faced.' Read
full review.
Special feature: ABR
turns 300!
Contributions for Inga Clendinnen, Glyn Davis,
Morag Fraser, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Clive James,
Richard Walsh and Geordie Williamson.
Read
full review.
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