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ABC Fiction Award
The ABC Fiction Award was an Australian literary award presented annually to the best, original, unpublished, adult fiction manuscript, written by an Australian resident over the age of 18. It was launched in 2005. The aim of the award was "to encourage emerging writers, contribute to Australian literary culture, and fulfil the ABC's charter by reflecting the diversity of the Australian community and adding to a sense of national identity". The award was supported by ABC Local Radio and ABC TV. The prize was a A$10,000 advance and publication through ABC Books. The winning book was also broadcast on ABC Local Radio and published as an audio book by ABC Audio. The award had four judges, three of whom changed each year. It comprised ABC Books commissioning editor Jo Mackay, a fiction writer, a local ABC radio broadcaster, and someone involved in literary education or debate such as a newspaper literary editor. Background The award was the brainchild of the ABC Books publisher, Stuar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Local Radio
ABC Local Radio is a network of publicly owned radio stations in Australia, operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ABC Local Radio stations broadcast across the continent using terrestrial transmitters and satellites. Its programming consists of news, current affairs, talkback, entertainment, sport, music and local affairs. They are usually reckoned as the flagship ABC radio stations in their areas. Depending on the time of day and the day of the week, programming can either be purely local (typically on weekday mornings), broadcast from the state or territory capital city ABC station, or simulcast across all ABC Local Radio services across the country (typically overnight, public holidays, in the summer months and on weekends). History Originally, Local Radio was known internally as ''ABC Radio 1'' in metropolitan regions and ''ABC Radio 3'' in regional areas. ''Radio 1'' was a largely local format while ''Radio 3'' was more networked and included content from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australian
''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatewatching." (2008). "''The Australian'' has long positioned itself as a loyal supporter of the incumbent government of Prime Minister John Howard, and is widely regarded as generally favouring the conservative side of politics." As the only Australian daily newspaper distributed nationally, its readership of both print and online editions was 2,394,000. Its editorial line has been self-described over time as centre-right. Parent companies ''The Australian'' is published by News Corp Australia, an asset of News Corp, which also owns the sole daily newspapers in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, and Darwin, and the most circulated metropolitan daily newspapers in Sydney and Melbourne. News Corp's Chairman and Founder is Rupert Murdoch. ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Fiction Awards
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Awards Honoring Unpublished Books Or Writers
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography, diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.''OED'' Etymologically, the term derives from Latin ''literatura/litteratura'' "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from ''litera/littera'' "letter". In spite of this, the term has also been applied to spoken or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Elliott
Will Elliott (born 1979) is an Australian horror fiction, horror and fantasy literature, fantasy writer living in Brisbane, Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland. He currently tutors at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Profile Elliott dropped out of a law degree at the age of 20 when he developed schizophrenia. His first novel, ''The Pilo Family Circus,'' concerns a young man who struggles with an alter ego who appears when he dons clown face paint; Elliott has said the novel is not autobiographical. ''The Pilo Family Circus'' was published in Australia in 2006 after winning the inaugural ABC Fiction Award (sponsored by ABC Books). The novel went on to win the Aurealis Award (co-winner: Best Horror novel, plus the Golden Aurealis Award),Aurealis Awards winners archive Retrieved 16 September 2007. the Australian Shadow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pilo Family Circus
''The Pilo Family Circus'' is a 2006 horror novel by Will Elliott. Plot It follows the story of Jamie, who, after a random incident of nearly hitting a clown with his car, finds himself being stalked by three sadistic clowns. Background ''The Pilo Family Circus'' was first published in Australia in October 2006 by ABC Books in trade paperback format after winning the inaugural ABC Fiction Award. It has also been released in an audio edition by ABC Audio, in 2007 it was released in the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, Sweden, Spain, Russia, and in 2009 it was released in the United States. ''The Pilo Family Circus'' won the 2006 Aurealis Award for best horror novel and the Golden Aurealis Award for best novel. It also won 2007 Ditmar Award for best novel, the 2006 Australian Shadows Award, the ''Sydney Morning Herald's'' "Best Young Novelist Award" for 2007 and was a short-list nominee for the 2007 International Horror Guild Award The International Horror Guild Award (al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kain Massin
Kain Massin is an Australian writer of speculative fiction. Biography Massin is based in Adelaide, South Australia where he is a high school maths and science teacher. He is also a member of the Blackwood Writers Group. Massin's first work was published in 1998 with his short story "Escape from Stalingrad" which was featured in fourth edition of ''Harbinger''. "Escape from Stalingrad" was nominated for the 1999 Aurealis Award for best horror short story but lost to Sean Williams and Simon Brown's "Atrax". In 2008 Massin's first novel was published by ABC Books, entitled '' God for the Killing'', after he won the 2008 ABC Fiction Award which has a A$10,000 prize and a publication deal for the novel. Awards and nominations Bibliography Anthologies ;As editor *''Tales from the Black Wood'' (2006, co-editor) Novels *'' God for the Killing'' (2008) Short stories *"Escape from Stalingrad" (1998) in ''Harbinger'' #4 *"Wrong Dreaming" (2000) in ''On Spec'' Fall 2000 (ed. Jena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp. The name is a combination of several publishing firm names: Harper & Row, an American publishing company acquired in 1987—whose own name was the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers (founded in 1817) and Row, Peterson & Company—together with Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons (founded in 1819), acquired in 1989. The worldwide CEO of HarperCollins is Brian Murray. HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, and China. The company publishes many different imprints, both former independent publishing houses and new imprints. History Collins Harper Mergers and acquisitions Collins was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corpora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Davies
Luke Davies (born 1962) is an Australian writer of poetry, novels and screenplays. His best known works are '' Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction'' (which was adapted for the screen in 2006) and the screenplay for the film '' Lion'', which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Davies also co-wrote the screenplay for the film '' News of the World.'' Life and career Davies studied Arts at the University of Sydney.Jason Steger, "Love in the time of poetry", ''The Age'', 21 August 2004, Review, p. 3 His first poetry collection ''Four Plots for Magnets'' was published in 1982 by S. K. Kelen at Glandular Press. Long out of print, it was republished (with additional poetry and prose) by Pitt Street Poetry in 2013. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film '' Candy'' with director Neil Armfield, based on his 1997 novel '' Candy''. The film stars Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish as struggling heroin addicts. Davies himself overcame heroin addi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Television (Australian TV Network)
ABC Television is the general name for the national television services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Until an organisational restructure in 2017/2018, ABC Television was also the name of a division of the ABC. The name was also used to refer to the first and for many years the only national ABC channel, before it was renamed ABC1 and then again to ABC TV. The Australian public broadcaster's television service was launched in November 1956 from its first television station in Australia, ABN Sydney. This was the second one in the country, with the commercial channel TCN having launched two months earlier. An ABC television network covering every state and territory was completed by 1971, and in 2000 the television operations joined the ABC radio and online divisions at the Corporation's Ultimo headquarters in Sydney in 2000. The ABC provides five non-commercial channels within Australia, headed by its flagship ABC TV channel, as well as ABC Australia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delia Falconer
Delia Falconer, born in Sydney in 1966, is an Australian novelist who became famous for her bestselling novel, The Service of Clouds. She has been nominated for multiple literary awards in recognition for her work. Biography Falconer is an only child of two graphic designer parents. She studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney. She completed a Ph.D. in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of the novels ''The Service of Clouds'' and ''The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers'' (which was republished in Australian paperback as ''The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and Selected Stories''). She also wrote ''Sydney'', a personal history of her hometown for the ''Australian Cities'' series. A nonfiction work, ''Signs and Wonders'', was published in 2021. She frequently publishes essays, journalism, and reviews in newspapers and journals. Her stories and essays have been widely anthologized, including in ''The Macquarie Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Horror Guild Award
The International Horror Guild Award (also known as the IHG Award) was an accolade recognizing excellence in the field of Horror fiction, horror/dark fantasy, presented by the International Horror Guild (IHG) from 1995 to 2008. The IHG Awards were determined by a jury of notable horror/dark fantasy critics and reviewers, which has included Edward Bryant, Ann VanderMeer, Stefan Dziemianowicz, William Sheehan, Fiona Webster and Hank Wagner. Nomination suggestions were accepted from the public. The annual awards were usually announced during a special presentation at a convention or other event, and IHG Award presentations have been held at the World Fantasy Convention, the World Horror Convention and Dragon*Con. Originally in the form of a "winged dog gargoyle" figure on a base, in 2002 the IHG Award was redesigned as a black, tombstone-shaped and free-standing plaque. The Living Legend Award had the same design, but in clear acrylic. Presentations References External links Abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
