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Eight outstanding writers will receive Griffith Review Writing Fellowships. The fellowships will enable writers to develop work already underway, and will result in publication in Griffith Review during 2017. The recipients of the fellowships are: Lech BlaineLaura ElveryJim HearnBri LeeRowena LennoxLinda NeilKristina OlssonNigel Powell The response to the announcement of the fellowships was remarkable, with…

The Nature Conservancy’s fourth biennial Nature Writing Prize is open for submissions until 27 January 2017. The $5,000 award is for an essay between 3,000 and 5,000 words to the theme ‘writing of place’. The prize will go to an Australian writer whose entry is judged to be of the highest literary merit and which…

Every year, the Grattan Institute releases a summer reading list for the Prime Minister. It recommends books and articles that the Prime Minister, or any Australian interested in public debate, will find both stimulating and a great read. We’re thrilled to see that this year’s list includes ‘Time for a new consensus: Fostering Australia’s comparative…

Congratulations to Griffith Review contributor Melissa Lucashenko, who this week was awarded the Copyright Agency Author Fellowship. This year, CAL doubled the value of its fellowship for mid-to-late career authors to $80,000. The money will help Melissa finish a contemporary novel about ‘outlaws and Aboriginal hillbillies’, set in a poor NSW country town called Durrongo.

Griffith Review is proud to join with the Queensland Literary Awards in announcing a series of Queensland writers Fellowships. This initiative will also be supported by the Queensland Government through State Library of Queensland and Arts Queensland, and philanthropic funds. Up to six fellowships will be awarded each year over two years, 2016 and 2017.…

Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 Josephine Ulrick Poetry and Literature Prizes! Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize Joint first prize ($7,500 each): ‘Bloodwork’ – Chloe Wilson (Williamstown, Victoria) ‘T/error: A Troika’ – Sarah Holland-Batt (Hamilton, Queensland)   Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize First prize ($10,000): ‘Chess and Dragonflies’ – Dr Tessa Lunney…

The shortlists for the 2016 Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Prizes have been announced! Stay tuned for the winners in mid-August. Poetry Prize: ‘Boy’, Jordie Albiston (Victoria) ‘The Demolition of Hotel Australia’, John Hawke (Victoria) ‘T/error: A Troika’, Sarah Holland-Batt (Queensland) ‘Preserved Heart with Gunshot Wound’, Sarah Holland-Batt (Queensland) ‘Whitely visits Morandi’, Nathan Shepherdson (Queensland) ‘Bloodwork’,…

‘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!