ABR
Competitions
ABR
Poetry Prize 2008 - first
prize now worth $4000
In its short
life, this competition has become one of the most prestigious
poetry competition in the country. Now it is even more lucrative,
with combined prizes of $5000 and a first prize of $4000.
Entries are now invited for the fiftth ABR Poetry Prize.
The previous winners were Stephen Edgar, Alex Skovron and
Judith Bishop and Ross Clark.
The winner will be announced in the April 2009 issue of ABR.
Entries close 10 December 2008.
Click
here for guidelines and application form.
John
Button Readers' Award - winner receives $1000
To
commemorate the life and work of John Button, an esteemed
ABR contributor and board member who died in April 2008,
we have created a new annual prize.
The John Button Readers' Award will be presented to the
author of the most popular article published in ABR during
the previous year, as selected by ABR readers.
The winner of the John Button Readers' Award will receive
$1000. But if you annotate your vote and state your reasons
for choosing the contributor, you'll be in the
running to win a copy of The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary,
Sixth Edition (valued at $399), courtesy of our friends
at Oxford University Press.
Voting closes now close 31 December 2008.
Click
here for guidelines and application form.
Recent
competitions
The
2008 ABR Reviewing Competition
We've
become aware that many university student wished to enter but
were finding it difficult to do so before the semester break in
July. Thus we have extended the deadline to July 31.
Reviews should be 800 words and of any book originally published
since January 2006. All categories of books are eligible, including
fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children's and YA books.
Please click
here for full details in the entry form.
This
competition is closed.
The
Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay - deadline extended -
entries now close 30 September!
Australian
Book Review (ABR) and Copyright Agency Limited
(CAL) are delighted to seek entries for the third Calibre
Prize for an Outstanding Essay. With a first prize of $10,000,
this is one of the world's major essay competitions.
The Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay is designed as
an inclusive competition. We welcome essays from leading writers
and commentators, but also from previously unpublished writers.
All non-fiction subjects are eligible: from life writing and
literary studies, to history and politics and environmental
studies, to anthropology and popular science. Essayists must
reside in Australia or be Australian citizens living overseas.
ABR and CAL look forward to fostering and rewarding
new insights into our literature, our culture and our society.
Click
here for guidelines and application form. Click
here for detailed Media Release announcing the Prize.
This competition is closed.
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Current
reviews
'Ten
weeks in America'
Morag Fraser on the rise of Barack
Obama
'At the Centre for Human Value, we waited
until after McCain's gracious concession speech before breaking
out the champagne. And even then the celebrations were muted.
Something so extraordinary had happened that it was hard
to find words, and even more difficult to sound trumpets
of jubilation.
'The
Winston factor'
Geoffrey Blainey on Winston
Churchill's relations with
Australia
Few overseas leaders have been as controversial as Winston
Churchill, the great British wartime prime minister, and
his influence on Australia was immense and contested for
half a
century, notably during the Gallipoli debacle and World
War II. Celebrated historian Geoffrey Blainey writes about
Graham
Freudenberg's new book, Churchill and Australia.
'The
people are disappointed'
Glyn Davis on Simon Schama
'The American Future joins, in self-conscious
fashion, a long tradition of writing about America. In this
the United States is
fortunate. Its dramatic history has provoked continuous
reflections
on the nature of American experience and character. As a
Briton living in America for three decades, Schama writes
with engagement yet distance.'
'Why Afghanistan?'
Riaz Hassan on the 'chaos'
in Pakistan
'Descent
into Chaos is a blistering critique of the Bush administrations
failure to establish a viable peace in Afghanistan by reigning
in the duplicitous governments of Pakistan, Uzbekistan and
other former Soviet central Asian countries.'
'The person defying the group'
Ian Britain on Anna Bemrose's Robert
Helpmann
Bemrose
[…] comes close to neutering her subject, or complying
too readily
with his strategic evasions. She hardly seems aware of the
posthumous biographer's freedom - responsibility, even -
to consider the surfaces and probe whatever may lie beneath
them.'
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