Jonathan Tel
Episode #6: The 2016 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize ceremony
Monday, 05 September 2016The 2016 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize ceremony was held at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 27 August. The event was compèred by ABR Deputy Editor, Amy Baillieu, with opening remarks from poet and author Maxine Beneba Clarke.
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The ABR Podcast
News from the Editor's Desk - August 2016
Tuesday, 26 July 2016News from the the Editor's Desk in the August issue of Australian Book Review.
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August 2016, no. 383
Jolley Prize 2016 (Shortlist): 'The Water Calligrapher's Women' by Jonathan Tel
Jonathan Tel
Thursday, 21 July 2016
She says it was a man, an old man (but all men are old to her), which man, what did he look like, what was he wearing, what did he do ...
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August 2016, no. 383
She sells her body to save her mother's life. If they made her the star of a reality show, that would be the tagline. The series would end with the mother's funeral; or else with a wedding: the heroine marries a perfect man, and the mother is magically restored to health. ... (read more)
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ABR Fiction