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The Stella Prize in Conversation / Awards & prizes

Clare Wright and Alexis Wright

In this talk, we hear from freshly-announced 2018 Stella Prize winner Alexis Wright in conversation with past winners Emily Bitto and Clare Wright, and host Toni Jordan. They talk about the impact the award has had on their writing, their careers and Australian literary culture.

In recent months, the stories of women – and with them, impediments to women’s media participation – have taken a pointed and particular prominence in mainstream culture, underpinning sustained social and political movements. One of many takeaways from those movements has been a widespread emphasis on how women might experience, and process, the world we all share.

Toni Jordan and Emily Bitto

Now in its sixth year, the Stella Prize was founded to do just that – and to elevate the writing of Australian women with an annual, $50,000 literary prize. Spanning both fiction and non-fiction, the prize also runs year-round programmes encouraging recognition of Australian women’s writing. Its shortlist is a deserving fixture on any discerning reader’s calendar.

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PM’s Literary Awards Winners in Conversation / Books, reading & writing

With Thuy On, Elizabeth Tynan, and Ryan O'Neill

What is Australian literature? What was Australian literature? And where is our literary culture taking us?

Now in its tenth year, the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards recognises outstanding merit in Australian literature. In this conversation, we explore what constitutes Australian literature in 2018. How do we imagine this country? Do books written by Australian authors reflect the obsessions, the divisions…

16 Apr 2018

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Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowships 2018: Introducing the Fellows (round one) / Books, reading & writing

Our Hot Desk Fellowships are back for 2018. Find out who's been selected, and take a peek at the projects the first intake of Fellows will be working on.

5 Feb 2018

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Victorian Premier’s Literary Award Winners / Books, reading & writing

Highlights and winners from last week's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.

18 Apr 2018

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The Stella Prize in Conversation / Awards & prizes

With Toni Jordan, Emily Bitto, Clare Wright and 1 other

Now in its sixth…

12 Apr 2018

Past event

PM’s Literary Awards Winners in Conversation / Awards & prizes

With Thuy On, Cath Crowley, Ryan O'Neill and 1 other

What is Australian literature? What was Australian literature? And where is our literary culture taking us? We’ll ask three recent winners of one of the country’s most prestigious literary prizes, the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.

Now in its tenth year, the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards recognises outstanding merit in Australian literature. In this conversation, we’ll explore what constitutes Australian literature…

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19 Sep 2012

Review: Southern Barbarians / Poetry

By Jon Tjhia

It’s unusual for a new collection of poems to have an introduction. They often appear in a collected or selected poems, serving to frame a writer’s life and work; but I don’t recall seeing an introduction to an individual collection before John Mateer’s Southern Barbarians. The usual convention is that, aside from the obligatory blurbs, a single collection will autonomously speak for itself…

4 Jul 2011

Community History Awards / Awards & prizes

By Alex Landragin

The Public Record Office of Victoria is administering this year’s Community History Awards, which previously were hosted by Information Victoria. Presented by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, the awards “recognise the contributions made by Victorians to the preservation of Victoria’s heritage”.

Although books dominate the award winners' lists, winners also include CDs, museum exhibitions and, among last year’s winners, a local history tour…

20 Jul 2010

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Young adults and children in PM’s Prize / Awards & prizes

By George Dunford

14 Aug 2014

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Working with Words: Andrew Nette / Creativity

By Jo Case

26 Aug 2011

‘Indelible Ink’ Leaves an Indelible Mark / Books, reading & writing

By Alex Landragin

Congratulations to Fiona McGregor, whose third novel Indelible Ink was announced winner of The Age Book of the Year Award last night at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival. Indelible Ink also won the fiction category, while Jim Davidson’s biography of historian Keith Hancock took out the gong in the non-fiction category and John Tranter won the poetry award for Starlight: 150 Poems…

6 Sep 2010

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Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Shortlist Announced / Awards & prizes

28 May 2013

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Why We Need a Literary Award To Engage Male Readers / Sexual & gender politics

Guest post by Paul Mitchell

23 Jun 2011

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The Travails of the Literary Prize Judge / Awards & prizes

By Alex Landragin

15 Mar 2011

Awards News / Awards & prizes

By Alex Landragin

The Wheeler Centre congratulates all the nominees for the Indie Book Awards, announced last night. The award honoured 2010 best Australian books, as judged by independent booksellers. Comedian Anh Do won the top gong for book of the year for his memoir of coming to Australia as a three year-old, The Happiest Refugee. Chris Womersley won the best novel award for his second…

1 Aug 2011

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Librarians Review the Premier’s 21: Poetry / Awards & prizes

By Alex Landragin

26 May 2011

Geordie Williamson Takes Out Pascall Prize for Criticism / Criticism

By Alex Landragin

“[I]n the early years of the 21st century, liberal America got its news from a satirical television program and its moral compass from a fortnightly journal of book reviews.” So writes Geordie Williamson in an essay this week in The Australian, asking why it is that after 9/11 the Daily Show and the New York Review of Books became such authoritative source of…

9 Aug 2012

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Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Shortlists 2012 / Awards & prizes

By Jo Case

27 Jan 2011

Tan Joins Australian Oscar Tilt / Awards & prizes

By Alex Landragin

Australian author and illustrator Shaun Tan is one of 7 Australians nominated for an Oscar overnight. Tan’s nomination is for the film The Lost Thing in the category of best animated short film. Tan co-directed the short with Andrew Ruhemann. Although he hardly needs an introduction, here’s one anyway.

Others in the list of Australians shortlisted for honours include Jacki Weaver for her portrayal…

4 Dec 2013

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