Poet and performer Candy Royalle has won the 2018 Red Room Poetry fellowship. Royalle was chosen from a shortlist of 11 poets. The prize is worth $10,000 in total, including... Read more
Overland journal has announced the shortlist for the fifth Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Jazz Money, for ‘as... Read more
Melbourne bookshop Brunswick Bound is launching a monthly event series featuring authors published by small presses and self-published authors. Called First Chapters, the monthly event series will feature three to... Read more
In the US, Joan Silber has won the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her novel Improvement (Counterpoint), reports the Washington Post. Silber’s novel was selected from a shortlist of five... Read more