Georgina Arnott

Georgina Arnott has been Assistant Editor at Australian Book Review since 2022. She is the author of The Unknown Judith Wright (UWAP, 2016), shortlisted for the National Biography Award, Judith Wright: Selected Writings (La Trobe University Press, 2022), and numerous book chapters, essays, and articles in the field of Australian literary studies, history and biography, as well as the writer/producer of an episode of Radio National’s History Listen. Georgina is a former judge of the National Biography Award (2018, 2019), an ABC Top 5 Humanities Scholar (2021), and a Rockefeller Archive Center fellow (2024).

Georgina Arnott reviews 'Indigo 1' edited by Donna Ward

October 2007, no. 295 • 01 October 2007

More than a journal, Indigo represents a vibrant creative writing movement based around the Fremantle Arts Centre. Submissions are accepted from those who currently reside in Western Australia or who have lived there for at least ten years. But why start a journal for Western Australian writing alone? Is there something distinctive about Western Australian experience? Certainly, the way sandgroper ... (read more)

Georgina Arnott reviews 'Famous Reporter no. 33' edited by Ralph Wessman et al. and 'Etchings no. 1' edited by Sabine Hopfer, Christopher Lappas and Patrick Allington

February 2007, no. 288 • 01 March 2007

Here we have one brand new literary journal, Etchings, and one which, by comparison, is practically geriatric: Famous Reporter. There is now a proliferation of literary journals, and SPUNC (Small Press Underground Networking Community) has emerged to advance their cause. We know that mainstream publishing is producing less diverse material, and that it is increasingly not Australian. The vast majo ... (read more)

Georgina Arnott reviews 'The Interest: How the British establishment resisted the abolition of slavery' by Michael Taylor

March 2021, no. 429 • 22 February 2021

In August 1823, Quamina Gladstone and his son Jack led an uprising in the British sugar colony of Demerara where they were held as slaves. The men believed that the British parliament had voted to abolish slavery and that this was being concealed from them. The colonists quashed the rebellion with firepower, torture, and execution. Something had happened in Britain’s parliament: the Anti-Slavery ... (read more)

Georgina Arnott reviews 'Switched On: Conversations with influential women in the Australian media' by Catherine Hanger

October 2006, no. 285 • 01 October 2006

Switched On showcases the careers of twenty-nine ‘influential’ women who work in the media. Catherine Hanger, interviewer and former editor of Vogue Australia, believes that Switched On ‘connects two major spheres of influence in our society – the media and the women who work in it’ – and argues that the influence of these women is ‘very powerful indeed’. While the title promises ... (read more)

'Links in the Chain: Legacies of British slavery in Australia' by Georgina Arnott

August 2020, no. 423 • 24 July 2020

In 2007, Britain’s Royal Mint issued a £2 coin commemorating two hundred years since the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, the zero in ‘1807’ appearing as if a broken link in a chain. While interrupting the notorious transatlantic trade, the Act did not end slavery itself – that was achieved, at least in parts of the British world, with further legislation in 1833 that outlawed en ... (read more)