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The Age Short Story Award
''The Age'' Short Story Award is a competition that is run in conjunction with International PEN, the international writers' association. It was established in 1979. From 1979 to 1984 it was run in conjunction with ''Tabloid Story'' and was known as ''The Age''-''Tabloid Story'' Awards. The inaugural award was won by Harris Smart. Entries must be unpublished, and under 3000 words. Three prizes are awarded and the winning stories are published in ''The Age'' and online. Winners References Serge Liberman {{DEFAULTSORT:Age Short Story Competition Australian fiction awards Short story awards Awards established in 1979 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International PEN
PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere. The association has autonomous International PEN centers in over 100 countries. Other goals included: to emphasise the role of literature in the development of mutual understanding and world culture; to fight for freedom of expression; and to act as a powerful voice on behalf of writers harassed, imprisoned and sometimes killed for their views. History The first PEN Club was founded at the Florence Restaurant in London on October 5, 1921, by Catherine Amy Dawson Scott, with John Galsworthy as its first president. Its first members included Joseph Conrad, Elizabeth Craig, George Bernard Shaw, and H. G. Wells. PEN originally stood for "Poets, Essayists, Novelists", but now stands for "Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, Novelists", and includes writers of any form of literatur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cate Kennedy
Cate Kennedy (born 1963) is an Australian author based in Victoria. Life and career Kennedy graduated from the University of Canberra and has also taught at several colleges, including The University of Melbourne. She is the author of the highly acclaimed novel ''The World Beneath'', which won the People's Choice Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2010. It was also shortlisted for ''The Age'' fiction prize 2010 and the ASA Barbara Jefferis Award 2010, among others. She is a short-story writer whose work has twice won The Age Short Story Competition and has appeared in a range of publications, including ''The New Yorker''. Her collection, ''Dark Roots'', was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Kennedy is also the author of the travel memoir ''Sing, and Don’t Cry'', and the poetry collections ''Joyflight'' and ''Signs of Other Fires''. Her book ''The Taste of River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Fiction Awards
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Graeme Simsion
Graeme C. Simsion (born 1956) is an Australian author, screenwriter, playwright and data modeller. Prior to becoming an author, Simsion was an information systems consultant, co-authoring the book ''Data Modelling Essentials,'' and worked in wine distribution. Literary career Don Tillman novels In 2012 Simsion won the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award for his book ''The Rosie Project''. The novel was published by Text Publishing to critical acclaim in Australia in January 2014. It has since sold more than three and a half million copies in over forty countries around the world. Simsion initially wrote ''The Rosie Project'' as a screenplay, which has since been optioned to Sony Pictures Entertainment. A sequel titled ''The Rosie Effect'', was published on 24 September 2014. The third and final book, '' The Rosie Result'', was published in February 2019. Other novels Simsion's third novel, ''The Best of Adam Sharp'' was published by Text Publishing in 2016. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bram Presser
Bram Presser (born 1976) is a Melbourne personality, known for his involvement in the Melbourne music scene and Jewish community. He fronted the Jewish punk rock prankster band Yidcore and was the singing voice for Mick Molloy in the 2006 Australian comedy film BoyTown. Following the breakup of Yidcore in December 2009, Presser turned to writing. He is a monthly columnist for The Australian Jewish News and is the author of the literary blog ''Bait For Bookworms''. His first short story, ''The Prisoner of Babel'', was published in Volume 7 of ''The Sleepers Almanac'' and another story, ''Crumbs'', won The Age Short Story Award for 2011. In an interview with The Age, Presser said the story was part of a novel he had been working on for several years. In 2000, Presser was a Bachelor of Laws Prize recipient, being awarded the Butterworths Prize (Advanced Legal Research). In 2007, Presser was painted by acclaimed Sydney artist and cardiologist Dennis Kuchar for the Archibald Prize. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Down
Jennifer Down (born 1990) is an Australian novelist and short story writer. She won the 2022 Miles Franklin Award for her novel ''Bodies of Light''. Biography Down was in born 1990. She studied arts at Melbourne University before studying professional writing and editing at RMIT. Down has worked as a writer, editor, and a translator. Awards and recognition Down won the 2014 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for "Aokigahara" and received third prize in ''The Age'' Short Story Award for "A Ticket to Switzerland" in 2010. Down's first novel, ''Our Magic Hour'', was shortlisted for the 2014 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award. She was chosen as one of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' Best Young Australian Novelists in 2017 for ''Pulse Points'' and 2018 for ''Bodies of Light''. She won the Steele Rudd Award at the Queensland Literary Awards and the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize in 2018 for ''Pulse Points''. Her 2021 novel, ''Bodies of Light'', won t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Frew
Peggy Frew (born 1976) is an Australian novelist. Background Frew was born in 1976 and grew up in Melbourne, Australia and attended RMIT University. Works Frew's writing often explores relationships between women within an Australian setting. Published works by Frew include ''Hope Farm'' (2015, Scribe) and ''House of Sticks'' (2011, Scribe). Short stories by Frew have been included in ''New Australian Stories 2,'' ''Women of Letters: Reviving the Lost Art of Correspondence'' (2011, Penguin), and ''Summer Shorts'' (2011, Scribe). She has also been published in ''The Big Issue,'' and literary magazines ''Kill Your Darlings'' and ''Meanjin''. Frew's novel ''Islands'' was published by Allen & Unwin in March 2019. Music Frew is a member of the Melbourne-based indie rock band, Art of Fighting. She plays bass and vocals. She formed the band in 1995 with Ollie Browne, whom she first met while at highschool. The band's album, ''Wires'', won the 2001 ARIA Award for Best Alter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Williams (author)
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Ross Gray (author)
Ross Gray may refer to: * Ross F. Gray (1920–1945), American Medal of Honor recipient * Ross Gray (politician) Ross Wilfred Gray (5 January 1897 – 11 December 1968) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Moore Township in Lambton County, Ontario and became a barrister by career. Gray attended Sarnia Collegia ... (1897–1968), Canadian member of Parliament * Ross Gray (footballer) (born 1992), Scottish footballer {{hndis, Gray, Ross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy O'Reilly
Paddy O'Reilly is a multiple award-winning Australian writer. Her first major short story prize was the Age Short Story Award in 2002 for her story, "Snapshots of Strangers". She was an Asialink resident to Japan in 1997 and has also won residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Varuna, The Writers' House, Bundanon Trust, Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre and the Newcastle Lockup, among others. She has won the Norma K Hemming Award and been shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal, the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Her novels and stories have been published and broadcast in Australia and New Zealand, China, the Caribbean, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. ''Heart of Pearl'', a short film for which she wrote the screenplay, was nominated for an Australian Film Institute award. Bibliography *2005 (Novel) ''The Factory'', Thompson Walker, Melbourne, republished 2015 by Affirm Press, Melbourne *2007 (Story Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and "the most widely-read masthead in the country." The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, ''The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday edition of ''The Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Roots
''Dark Roots'' is a collection of short fiction by Cate Kennedy. It was first published in Australia by Scribe (publisher), Scribe in 2006. ''Cold Snap'' appeared in The New Yorker under the title ''Black Ice''. ''What Thou and I Did, till We Loved'' won The Age Short Story Award in 2001. Contents ''Dark Roots'' contains the following short stories: # "What Thou and I Did, Till We Loved" # "A Pitch Too High For The Human Ear" # "Habit" # "Flotsam" # "Cold Snap" # "Resize" # "The Testosterone Club" # "Dark Roots" # "Angel" # "Seizure" # "The Light of Coincidence" # "Soundtrack" # "Direct Action" # "The Correct Names of Things" # "Wheelbarrow Thief" # "Sea Burial" # "Kill or Cure" Reception ''The New York Times'' reviewed the collection, calling Kennedy's stories "melancholy but deliberate and coolly exact". ''The Herald (Glasgow), The Herald Scotland'' also reviewed ''Dark Roots'', writing that there was "much to admire in Cate Kennedy's debut collection of short sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
