News & Views Christine Paice wins $10,000 prize for poem about her late mother Kiama-based poet and author Christine Paice has won this year’s ACU Prize for Poetry, one of Australia’s richest prizes for a single poem.
Profiles I wrote a book to make the world feel less lonely “For the first 22 years of my life, I wasn’t encouraged to express what I wanted,” A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing author Jessie Tu writes.
News & Views Heather Rose wins The Stella Prize for novel that took 11 years to write: “I persisted”. Heather Rose wins The Stella Prize in 2017 for The Museum of Modern Love a novel that took her 11 years to write. The prize is a career defining moment.
Soapbox I’m nearing 60 and I’m living on the road with no strings attached. Jenn J McLeod is nearly 60 and she is living my dream of life on the road with no strings attached. Since 2014 she’s been doing “the big lap very slowly”.
