Aussie Women in the Spotlight
First came the finalists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards. Now we have what’s being billed as the “rather long shortlist” of contenders for the […]
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The Future of Hollywood Success in the Hands of the Writers of the Future
People crave to be transported out of the mundane world into a place that is new and wondrous, and that is what speculative fiction does […]
2019 Energy Person of the Year: The Climate Warriors
The spirit of resistance … is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be […]
Author and Feminist Icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Honored
Sometimes it can feel very lonely trying to prove that sexism exists, that we haven’t achieved basic equality for women around the world. Tonight is […]
Willie Morris Award for Southern Literature
The Willie Morris Awards for Southern fiction have been awarded. Tiffany Quay Tyson was honored for her novel The Past Is Never (Skyhorse Publishing) and […]
The 2018 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction Shortlist Announced
The Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction has announced its shortlist. The annual award is given to a writer whose work is set in the […]
Booker Longlist Announced
The longest for the 2019 Booker Award have been announced. Competition for the £50,000 international award is high. This year the favorites include The Testament, […]
Milkman Wins Man Booker
The 50th Man Booker Prize has been awarded to Anna Burns for the novel Milkman (Faber & Faber). Burns, 56, who was born in Belfast […]
Sunburst Award for “Books of the Fantastic”
Eden Robinson has been awarded the Copper Cylinder Award, a prize given annually for Canadian literature of the fantastic, selected by members of the Sunburst […]
The English Patient Awarded Golden Man Booker
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje has been awarded the Golden Man Booker Award. From the Man Booker news site: The winner of this special […]
