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ABR Competitions

Fourth Calibre Prize

Australian Book Review and the Copyright Agency Limited are pleased to announce the fourth Calibre Prize for Outstanding Essay.

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Young Calibre - a new essay prize for young writers

Australian Book Review and the Copyright Agency Limited present the inaugural Young Calibre Prize, open to those 21 years old and younger.

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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.


 

The ABR Favourite Australian Novel Poll (FAN Poll)

To Australian Book Review invites you to vote in the ABR FAN Poll. Vote now and be in the draw to win one of three major prizes.

Voting closes 15 December 2009.

Click here for full details, and to vote.

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

  

Current reviews

'"Must I write?"': Gerald Murnane's Barley Patch
David Musgrave considers Gerald Murnane's raison d'etre in the celebrated author's new self-referential novel; his first in eighteen years.
Click here to read the full review.

'Lifting the lid': Brenda Niall's The Riddle of Father Hackett
Morag Fraser applauds Brenda Niall's biography of Father William Hackett, the 'restless, sociable' Irish priest and node of intellectual
Catholicism.
Click here to read the full review.

'The greedy, bleeding pen': Dorothy Porter's The Bee Hut
Gig Ryan identifies an unstoppable joie de vivre in Dorothy Porter's
posthumous collection, offset by premonitory motifs of mortality and
preservation .
Click here to read the full review.

'The mystery of blue': Denis Dutton's The Art Instinct
Helen McDonald examines Denis Dutton's radical argument for a Darwinian, instinct-based understanding of aesthetic judgement in art.
Click here to read the full review.

 

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