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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.

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.

Congratulations to Griffith REVIEW contributors who have been recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List:Tom Griffiths AO for distinguished service to tertiary education, particularly social, cultural and environmental history, and through popular and academic contributions to Australian literature.Tony Wheeler AO for distinguished service to business and commerce as a p ublisher of travel guides, and as…

Griffith REVIEW 43: Pacific Highways contributor, Alison Wong, has been selected to take part in a writers’ exchange with China to work on a memoir inspired by her Pacific Highways essay. She will be the first New Zealand writer to join the prestigious Shanghai International Writers’ Program. About eight writers from all over the world are selected each…

Kris Olsson was joint winner of the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction for her masterful and heartrending book, Boy, Lost. Ashley Hay took out the People’s Choice Award for The Railwayman’s Wife.