Posts by Susan Hornbeck

‘Finger money: The black and white of stolen wages’ by Steve Kinnane, Judy Harrison and Isabelle Reinecke, from Griffith Review 47: Looking West, has been selected as a Finalist in the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Awards 2015 in the Promotion of Indigenous Recognition Award category. Congratulations to the authors!

Congratulations to all the Griffith Review contributors who have been shortlisted in the 2015 Queensland Literary Awards: Ellen van Neerven, Nick Earls, Sophie Cunningham, Megan McGrath and Michelle Law.

Peter Mares has won the 2015 Migration and Settlement Award for Journalism Excellence for his Inside Story essay, ‘Living at the wrong end of the queue’. Chris Price’s essay from Griffith Review 43: Pacific Highways – volume 2 has been longlisted for the Notting Hill Essay Prize. Cameron Muir’s book, The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress: An Environmental History,…

Randa Abdel-Fattah’s 2005 young-adult novel Does My Head Look Big in This? (Pan) is being adapted into a film. The screenplay will be written by Abdel-Fattah and producer David Curzon (Swing Wing). Also working on the project are author Melinda Marchetta as a story consultant and The Sapphires screenwriter Keith Thompson as a supporting editor.…

Did you miss the Wheeler Centre event to celebrate Forgotten Stories – The Novella Project II? You can watch it here.  The novella occupies a special place in literature – we all know it’s longer than a short story and shorter than a novel. Famous novellas include some of literature’s greats: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Wide…

Congratulations to all winners of the PM’s Literary Awards. A special shout-out to Helen Trinca, whose moving portrait of growing up in Perth can be read soon in Griffith Review 47: Looking West (Feb 2015). A round of applause too for Richard Flanagan who donated $40,000 prize money to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and Bob Graham for…

Congratulations to Jo Chandler who won the Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing, for the second time! Read Jo’s essay ‘The science laboratory‘ from Tasmania – The Tipping Point?

Griffith REVIEW contributor, Margo Lanagan, has won the Barbara Jefferis award.  Margo Lanagan’s Sea Hearts (Allen & Unwin) and Fiona McFarlane’s The Night Guest (Penguin Books) were named joint winners of the Barbara Jefferis Award 2014. The Barbara Jefferis Award is offered biennially for ‘the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and…

The Best Australian Science Writing 2014 edited by Griffith REVIEW contributor, Ashley Hay, features two essays from Now We Are Ten: ‘Weather and mind games’ by Tom Griffiths and ‘Promise or peril’ by Leah Kaminsky which was also featured on ABC TV’s Australian Story. Read them online to find out why they are they are considered…

There is a need for both a new approach to indigenous leadership and a new relationship with the First Peoples of Australia, based on respect and high expectations, argues Aboriginal leader, Dr Chris Sarra.  He believes we must find a better way to recognise and value Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.  Leadership is required…

Congratulations to Melissa Lucashenko on winning the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing for the outstanding book Mullumbimby (UQP). Read Melissa’s wonderful Walkley-Award winning essay from Griffith REVIEW 41: Now We Are Ten, Sinking below sight: Down and out in Brisbane and Logan then rush out and buy Mullumbimby!