Amy Baillieu
Marcus Clarke (1846–1881) was an Australian journalist, novelist, and poet, best known for the novel For the Term of His Natural Life (1874) which was originally serialised as His Natural Life in the Australasian Journal.
Marcus Clarke, 1866
Reading Australia
Brian Matthews has written on For the Term of His Natural Life (1874) for ABR as part of the Reading Australia project. Click here ... (read more)
Professor Kim Scott (1957-) is an award-winning indigenous author. His books include True Country (1993), Benang (1999), Kayang and Me (with Hazel Brown, 2005), and That Deadman Dance (2010). He has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award twice (for Benang and That Deadman Dance) and has also been awarded the Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal (2011). Kim is the founder and chair of the Wirl ... (read more)
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Announcing the 2014 Jolley Prize winner
Jennifer Down was named the winner of the 2014 Jolley Prize by Ian Dickson at The Cube, ACMI on Saturday 30 August. She received a total of $5,000 for her winning short story, ‘Aokigahara’. Faith Oxenbridge came second place with her story 'The Art of Life', winning $2,000, and Cate Kennedy came third with 'Doisneau's Kiss', winning $1,000. We would lik ... (read more)
Welcome to the ABR contributor list. Here you will find a list of all the contributors who have written for ABR since 1978 and the issue numbers in which they were published.
1978 (issue number 1–7) 1979 (8–17) 1980 (18–27) 1981 (28–37) 1982 (38–47) 1983(48–57) 1984 (58–67) 1985 (68–77) 1986 (78–87) 1987 (87–97) 1988 (98–107) 1989 (108–117) 1990 (118–127) 1991 (128–137 ... (read more)
Four Sonnets
The Drowning of Charles Kruger, Fireman(St Valentine’s Day, 1908)
Comes a fire into Canal Street: its rows of clapboard tenements rotting back to marsh. He knows it too well, the ‘furniture district’. This time, a fire built on picture frames. Charles Kruger drops onto what he thought a cellar floor, finding instead his New World to be eight feet of seepage bound by stone. ... (read more)
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Reviews Index 2013
ADAMS, Michael, The Last Girl, Allen & Unwin, 357/70, Margot McGovern AITKEN, Adam, Kim Cheng Boey and Michelle Cahill (eds), Contemporary Asian Australian Poets, Puncher & Wattmann, 357/55, John Kinsella ALIZADEH, Ali, Transactions, University of Queensland Press, 353/70, Jay Daniel Thompson ALTMAN, Dennis, The End of the Homosexual?, University of Queensland Press, 35 ... (read more)
Jennifer Down was named the winner of the 2014 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize in front of a packed house at Melbourne Writers Festival on Saturday, 30 August. Ms Down, a Victorian writer, received $5,000 for her story entitled ‘Aokigahara’.
Jennifer Down at the announcement ceremony (photograph by Torunn Momtazi)
The Jolley Prize – one of Australia’s most lucrative and visible aw ... (read more)