Posts by Susan Hornbeck

Did you read about Dr Catherine Crock in the Australian? She won an award for developing a CDs of music that could be played in hospitals to soothe children undergoing treatment for cancer. Dr Crock is just one of the many extraordinary doctors featured in Lucy Mayes’ essay, ‘Beyond the stethoscope‘ from the current edition…

Is there a literary award this year that Ashley Hay hasn’t been shortlisted for? This week it’s the Colin Roderick Award. Congratulations, Ash. Well deserved. Download Ashley Hay’s lead essay from Griffith REVIEW 45: The Way We Work as an e-single and see why she’s being recognised as one of Australia’s best writers.

We are saddened that New Zealand’s leading literary agent, Michael Gifkins, died on 28 July after suffering from prostate cancer for some years. As an agent he represented a number of leading writers, including Lloyd Jones, and played a major role in the international success of both the novel and film of Lloyd Jones’ Booker-shortlisted…

Congratulations to Pacific Highways‘ co-editor Lloyd Jones and contributors Damien Wilkins and Vincent O’Sullivan, all shortlisted for the New Zealand Post Book Awards.

Congratulations to Griffith REVIEW contributor, Kris Olsson, who has won the Kibble Literary Award for women’s writing for her extraordinary family memoir, Boy, Lost. If you haven’t read it already, you really must.