ABR
Competitions
Fourth Calibre Prize
Australian Book Review and the Copyright Agency Limited are pleaseds to announce the fourth Calibre Prize for Outstanding Essay.
For more details, click here.
Young Calibre - a new essay prize for young writers
Australian Book Review and the Copyright Agency Limited will announce details of the fourth Calibre Prize for Outstanding Essay shortly
For more details, click here
The
2009 ABR Reviewing Competition - worth $1000
It's
on again! Budding reviews and those in full critical flower are
invited to enter the 2009 ABR Reviewing Competition.
Reviews should be 800 words and of any book originally published
since January 2007. All categories of books are eligible, including
fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children's and YA books.
Please click
here for full details in the entry form.
New closing date: 31 August 2009.
Sixth ABR Poetry Prize - worth a total of $5000
Details of the ABR's 6th Poetry Prize will be announced in the July/August 2009 issue.
Entries
close 1 December 2009.
To read the winning and shortlisted poems from the 2009 Poetry Prize, click here.
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Current
reviews
'Subterranean passion': John Brack and the search for order
To coincide with the current exhibition at the NGV, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
discusses the art of John Brack. He recounts his first encounter with the
artist's work, whose odd austerity he found arresting, and recalls their
robust lunches in Italianate Carlton.
Click here to read the full review.
'Daydream believer': M.J. Hyland's new novel
Rebecca Starford finds M.J. Hyland's third novel, This Is How, to contain
the same warped and introverted narrator typical of her fiction. In spite of this
familiarity, Hyland has created a novel of discomfiting human truths.
Click here to read the full review.
'Lost between hemispheres': Shirley Walker's family memoir
Brenda Niall praises Shirley Walker's The Ghost at the Wedding, which
returns to the material of her 2001 autobiography, Roundabout at Bangalow,
focusing on the poignant memories of the young men in her family who
served in two world wars.
Click here to read the full review.
'Indon blitz': Tony Maniaty's Shooting Balibo
Jill Jolliffe reviews Shooting Balibo, which concerns the making of the
new film and Tony Maniaty's stint in East Timor in 1975. Jolliffe remembers
her time as a freelance correspondent for the AAP. She and Maniaty were
the only foreign journalists in Dili when the 'Balibo Five' perished during an
Indonesian onslaught.
Click here to read the full review.
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