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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…

‘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.

Yesterday, Western Australia became the last mainland state to recognise Indigenous people as the state’s first inhabitants and traditional custodians, with a unanimously passed bill in the WA Legislative Council. Listen to Fran Kelly’s report on this important, if symoblic, milestone on ABC RN Breakfast. For more on the state of Indigenous affairs in Western…

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.…

After six months, 271 entries and weeks of intense reading and debate, Griffith Review has finally announced the winners of its 2015 novella competition.  Griffith Review, with the active support of CAL’s cultural fund, has been at the forefront of reviving novellas in Australia, publishing eleven novellas in Griffith Review 38: The Novella Project and Griffith 46: Forgotten Stories…

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…