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3 Sep 2018

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Rough Diamonds: The Award for an Unpublished Manuscript / Books, reading & writing

With Toni Jordan, Christian White, Melanie Cheng and 1 other

In its 15-year history, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript has launched some big names in Australian writing, including Graeme Simsion (The Rosie Project), Maxine Beneba Clarke (Foreign Soil) and more.

The award is a big leg-up for unpublished authors. Previous winners have gone on to write bestselling books across a range of…

9 Jul 2018

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

Meet the second intake of Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellows, and take a peek at the projects they'll be working on.

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The Stella Prize in Conversation / Awards & prizes

With Toni Jordan, Alexis Wright, Clare Wright and 1 other

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…

Podcast episode

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The Wheeler Centre

The Stella Prize in Conversation / Awards & prizes

Clare Wright and Alexis Wright — Photo: Jon Tjhia

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 — Photo: Jon Tjhia

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.

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26 Jul 2012

News

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Working with Words: Mark McKenna / Creativity

By Jo Case

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Into Stella: A Constellation of Writing by Australian Women / Awards & prizes

With Peggy Frew, Alice Pung, Aviva Tuffield and 1 other

10 Sep 2014

Past event

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The Stella Prize Goes to School / Awards & prizes

With Bec Kavanagh, Cate Kennedy, Tony Birch and 1 other

11 Feb 2011

Indie Booksellers to Sound the Gong / Awards & prizes

By Alex Landragin

It’s been a busy week for Wheeler Centre presenter Fiona McGregor. An exhibition of her performance work ‘Vertigo’ opened at Sydney gallery MOP. And on Monday, she’s up for an Indie Book Award in the fiction category for her novel Indelible Ink. She writes about the book here.

Another past Wheeler Centre presenter, Chris Womersley, is also nominated for his novel Bereft…

Podcast episode

The Wheeler Centre

The Stella Prize in Conversation / Awards & prizes

23 May 2013

Past event

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Unpublished Manuscript Award at the Emerging Writers’ Festival Launch / New & emerging writers

With Graeme Simsion and Sam Twyford-Moore

22 Aug 2011

Irish Novelist May Not Win the Booker / Books, reading & writing

By Alex Landragin

An Irish author has, by dint of sheer chutzpah, managed a way to be nominated for a literary award before his book has been published. Two weekends ago, Julian Gough posted a plea for help on his website under the title, ‘Help save civilisation by reading a funny book’. Gough asked readers to read and review his forthcoming comic novel Jude in London for…

26 Jul 2011

Booksellers Sound the Gong / Awards & prizes

By Alex Landragin

The Age reports today on Anh Do’s awards win at last night’s Australian Booksellers' Association awards night. The report notes Do was named newcomer of the year, his memoir The Happiest Refugee (for which a Russell Crowe-backed movie has been mooted) was the industry’s book of the year. Do shared the biography of the year gong with Paul Kelly’s How to Make Gravy.

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28 Sep 2010

Past event

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Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Dinner / Awards & prizes

With Casey Bennetto

4 Oct 2011

News

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Ignoble Speculation on Nobel Winner / Awards & prizes

By Alex Landragin

17 Apr 2013

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Carrie Tiffany wins first-ever Stella Prize / Awards & prizes

By Jo Case

24 Jan 2014

News

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Our reviews: Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (Drama) / Awards & prizes

By Jo Case

18 Apr 2012

News

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Losing to No One: The 2012 Pulitzer for Fiction / Awards & prizes

By Jo Case

21 Apr 2011

Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Receive a Boost / Awards & prizes

By Alex Landragin

The Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu announced changes to the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards this morning at the Wheeler Centre. In 2011, five awards, each with a purse of $25,000, will be awarded in the following categories: fiction (the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction); non-fiction (the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction); poetry (the CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry); drama (the Louis Esson Prize for Drama)…

17 Nov 2017

Past event