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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!

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.