Australian Book Review

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| frequency = Eleven times a year (January–February is a double issue)

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| based = Boyd, Southbank, Victoria

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Australian Book Review is an Australian arts and literary review.{{cite web |url=http://apo.org.au/source/australian-book-review |title=Australian Policy Online |work=Research and Evidence Base |access-date=25 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025174658/http://apo.org.au/source/australian-book-review |archive-date=25 October 2016 |url-status=dead}} Created in 1961,{{cite web|title=Australian Magazines of the Twentieth Century|work=Austlit|url=http://www.austlit.edu.au/specialistDatasets/BookHistory/AustMag|access-date=1 January 2012 }} ABR is an independent non-profit organisation that publishes articles, reviews, commentaries, essays, and new writing. The aims of the magazine are "to foster high critical standards, to provide an outlet for fine new writing, and to contribute to the preservation of literary values and a full appreciation of Australia's literary heritage".{{cite web|url=http://www.australianbookreview.com.au/supportus/patrons-program|title=Patron Program|work=Australian Book Review|access-date=4 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110914021457/http://australianbookreview.com.au/supportus/patrons-program|archive-date=14 September 2011|url-status=dead}}

History and profile

Australian Book Review was established by Max Harris and Rosemary Wighton as a monthly journal in Adelaide, Australia, in 1961. In 1971 production was reduced to quarterly releases, and lapsed completely in 1974. In 1978 the journal was revived by the National Book Council and, moving to Melbourne, began producing ten issues per year.The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, Second Edition. William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton, and Barry Andrews (eds). Oxford University Press, 1994. ABR published the 400th issue of the second series in April 2018.{{Cite web|title=April 2018, no. 400|url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2018/content/218-april-2018-no-400|access-date=2022-02-01|website=australianbookreview.com.au|language=en-gb}} An eleventh issue was added in 2021{{Cite web|last=Australian Book Review|first=Australian Book Review|date=2021-02-22|title=ABR News - April 2021|url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2021/april-2021-no-430/962-april-2021-no-430/7585-abr-news-april-2021|access-date=2022-02-01|website=Australian Book Review|language=en-gb}} (the magazine publishes a double issue in January–February).

ABR is currently in partnership with Monash University and had a previous partnership with Flinders University.{{Cite web|title=ABR - Australian Book Review|url=http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/handle/2328/12| access-date=28 August 2011}} The magazine is supported by various organisations including the Creative Australia, Arts SA, City of Melbourne Creative Spaces, and Copyright Agency Limited.{{cite web |title=Thanking Our Partners |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/support-abr/supporters-and-sponsors |website=australianbookreview.com |publisher=Australian Book Review |access-date=1 February 2024}}

ABR publishes reviews, essays, commentaries, interviews and new creative writing. The magazine is national in readership, authorship, distribution, events and partners. It is available in print and online.

ABR’s diverse programs include three prestigious international prizes, writers’ fellowships worth as much as $10,000, themed issues, national events, cultural tours, and paid editorial internships/cadetships.

Peter Rose is the Editor; and Sarah Holland-Batt is Chairperson of the Board.{{Cite web|date=2018-04-03|title=About Australian Book Review|url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/about/about-australian-book-review|access-date=2022-02-01|website=Australian Book Review|language=en-gb}}

=Editors=

1961–1974: Geoffrey Dutton, Max Harris and Rosemary Wighton
1978–1986: John McLaren
1986–1987: Kerryn Goldsworthy
1988: Louise Adler
1989–1995: Rosemary Sorensen
1995–2000: Helen Daniel
2001–present: Peter Rose

Calibre Essay Prize

The Calibre Essay Prize is given annually since 2007.{{cite web |title=Calibre Prize Past Winners |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-programs/calibre-prize/past-winners |website=Australian Book Review |publisher=Australian Book Review |access-date=29 January 2024}} The prize, first awarded in 2007, is currently worth a total of A$10,000.{{cite web |title=Calibre Essay Prize |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-programs/calibre-prize/2024 |website=australianbookreview.com |publisher=Australian Book Review |access-date=31 January 2024}}

The prize is open to authors around the world writing in English. ABR accepts entries from published authors commentators, and emerging writers. All non-fiction subjects are eligible.

=Winners=

2007 – Elisabeth Holdsworth: An die Nachgenborenen: For Those Who Come After
2008 – Rachel Robertson: Reaching One Thousand and Mark Tredinnick: A Storm and a Teacup
2009 – Kevin Brophy: "What're yer looking at yer fuckin' dog": Violence and Fear in Žižek's Post-political Neighbourhood and Jane Goodall: Footprints
2010 – Lorna Hallahan: On being Odd and David Hansen: Seeing Truganini
2011 – Dean Biron: The Death of the Writer and Moira McKinnon: Who Killed Matilda?
2012 – Matt Rubinstein: Body and Soul: Copyright and Law Enforcement in the Age of the Electronic Book
2013 – Martin Thomas: "Because it's your country": Bringing Back the Bones to West Arnhem Land
2014 – Christine Piper: Unearthing the past
2015 – Sophie Cunningham: Staying with the trouble
2016 – Michael Winkler: The Great Red Whale
2017 – Michael Adams: Salt Blood
2018 – Lucas Grainger-Brown: We Three Hundred
2019 – Grace Karskens: Nah Doongh's Song
2020 – Yves Rees: Reading the Mess Backwards
2021 – Theodore Ell: Façades of Lebanon
2022 – Simon Tedeschi: This Woman My Grandmother
2023 – Tracy Ellis: Flow States

Peter Porter Poetry Prize

Australian Book Review established its annual Poetry Prize in 2005, and in 2011 renamed it the Peter Porter Poetry PrizeAustralian Book Review Peter Porter Poetry Prize: http://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes/peter-porter-poetry-prize {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110821164726/http://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes/peter-porter-poetry-prize |date=21 August 2011 }} in memory of the Australian poet Peter Porter (1929–2010). The Prize is one of Australia's most lucrative awards for poetry. Winning and short-listed entries are published in ABR. Judith Bishop and Anthony Lawrence are the only poets to win the prize twice. The prize is open to poets around the world writing in English.

Entrants can submit a single poem of no more than 75 lines. Multiple entries are permitted, and all poems are judged anonymously.

=Winners=

2005 – Stephen Edgar: Man on the Moon
2006 – Judith Bishop: Still Life with Cockles and Shells
2007 – Alex Skovron:Sanctum
2008 – Ross Clark: Danger: Lantana
2009 – Tracy Ryan: Lost Property
2010 – Anthony Lawrence: Domestic Emergencies
2011 – Judith Bishop: 'Openings' and Tony Lintermans: Self-portrait at Sixty
2012 – Michael Farrell: Beautiful Mother
2013 – John A. Scott: Four Sonnets
2014 – Jessica L. Wilkinson: Arrival Platform Humlet
2015 – Judith Beveridge: As Wasps Fly Upwards
2016 – Amanda Joy: Tailings
2017 – Louis Klee: Sentence to Lilacs and Damen O'Brien: pH
2018 – Nicholas Wong: 101, Taipei
2019 – Andy Kissane: Searching the Dead and Belle Ling: 63 Temple Street, Mong Kok
2020 – A. Frances Johnson: My Father's Thesaurus
2021 – Sara M. Saleh: A Poetics of Fo(u)rgetting
2022 – Anthony Lawrence: In the Shadows of Our Heads
2023 – Dan Disney: periferal, fantasmal
2024 – Dan Hogan: Workarounds

''ABR'' Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

Australian Book Review revived its annual short story competition in 2010, and in 2011 renamed it the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize in memory of the late Australian writer, Elizabeth Jolley (1923–2007).{{Cite web|last=Mem: 11675216|title=In Brief {{!}} Books+Publishing|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2011/10/17/21673/in-brief-254/|access-date=2022-02-23|language=en-AU}} The total prize money is now $12,500. The prize is open to authors around the world writing in English.

=Winners=

2010 – Maria Takolander: A Roānkin Philosophy of Poetry{{Cite web |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/component/k2/45-december-2010-january-2011/190-abr-short-story-competition-winner |title=Jolley Prize 2010 (Winner): 'A Roānkin philosophy of poetry' by Maria Takolander |access-date=24 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201000612/https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/component/k2/45-december-2010-january-2011/190-abr-short-story-competition-winner |archive-date=1 February 2016 |url-status=dead}}
2011 – Carrie Tiffany: Before He Left the Family{{Cite web |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/component/k2/59-october-2011/563-before-he-left-the-family |title=Jolley Prize 2011: 'Before He Left the Family' |access-date=26 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140919063202/https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/component/k2/59-october-2011/563-before-he-left-the-family |archive-date=19 September 2014 |url-status=dead}} and Gregory Day: The Neighbour's Beans{{Cite web |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/component/k2/59-october-2011/564-the-neighbour-s-beans |title=Jolley Prize 2011: 'The Neighbour's Beans' |access-date=26 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140919211133/https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/component/k2/59-october-2011/564-the-neighbour-s-beans |archive-date=19 September 2014 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|last=Mem: 11674912|title=In Brief {{!}} Books+Publishing|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2011/10/17/21673/in-brief-254/|access-date=2022-02-23|language=en-AU}}
2012 – Sue Hurley: Patterns in Nature{{Cite web|url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/september-2012/1113-344-ejssp-hurley|title = Jolley Prize 2012 (Winner): 'Patterns in Nature' by Sue Hurley|date = 29 August 2012}}{{Cite web|last=Mem: 11540456|title=Hurley wins 'ABR' Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize {{!}} Books+Publishing|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2012/10/01/25120/hurley-wins-abr-elizabeth-jolley-short-story-prize-2/|access-date=2022-02-23|language=en-AU}}
2013 – Michelle Michau-Crawford: Leaving Elvis{{Cite web|last=Michau-Crawford|first=Michelle|title=Jolley Prize 2013 (Winner): 'Leaving Elvis' by Michelle Michau-Crawford|url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/107-october-2013-no-355/1651-leaving-elvis|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-25|website=Australian Book Review|date=26 September 2013|language=en-gb|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210830071102/https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/107-october-2013-no-355/1651-leaving-elvis |archive-date=30 August 2021 }}{{Cite web|last=Mem: 11624480|title=Michau-Crawford wins 'ABR' Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize 2013 {{!}} Books+Publishing|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2013/10/29/28668/michau-crawford-wins-abr-elizabeth-jolley-short-story-prize-2013/|access-date=2022-02-23|language=en-AU}}
2014 – Jennifer Down: Aokigahara{{Cite web|url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/122-september-2014-no-364/2145-aokigahara|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150327054139/https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/122-september-2014-no-364/2145-aokigahara|archive-date = 27 March 2015|title = Jolley Prize 2014 (Winner): 'Aokigahara' by Jennifer Down|date = 27 August 2014}}{{Cite web|last=Mem: 11527504|title=Down wins 2014 Elizabeth Jolley Prize {{!}} Books+Publishing|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2014/09/01/31169/down-wins-2014-elizabeth-jolley-prize/|access-date=2022-02-23|language=en-AU}}
2015 – Rob Magnuson Smith: The Elector of Nossnearly{{Cite web |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/160-september-2015-no-374/2680 |title=Jolley Prize 2015 (Winner): 'The Elector of Nossnearly' by Rob Magnuson Smith |access-date=23 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923141337/https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/160-september-2015-no-374/2680 |archive-date=23 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}
2016 – Josephine Rowe: Glisk{{Cite web|last=Mem: 11612080|title=Rowe wins 2016 'ABR' Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize {{!}} Books+Publishing|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2016/09/01/66131/rowe-wins-2016-abr-elizabeth-jolley-short-story-prize/|access-date=2022-02-23|language=en-AU}}
2017 – Eliza Robertson: Pheidippides{{Cite web|last=Mem: 11609832|title=Robertson wins 2017 'ABR' Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize {{!}} Books+Publishing|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2017/08/16/94634/robertson-wins-2017-abr-elizabeth-jolley-short-story-prize/|access-date=2022-02-23|language=en-AU}}
2018 – Madelaine Lucas: Ruin{{Cite news|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2018/08/21/113611/lucas-wins-2018-abr-elizabeth-jolley-short-story-prize/|title=Lucas wins 2018 'ABR' Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize {{!}} Books+Publishing|access-date=2018-09-01|language=en-AU}}{{Cite web|last=Mem: 11621560|title=Lucas wins 2018 'ABR' Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize {{!}} Books+Publishing|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2018/08/21/113611/lucas-wins-2018-abr-elizabeth-jolley-short-story-prize/|access-date=2022-02-23|language=en-AU}}
2019 – Sonja Dechian: The Point-Blank Murder{{Cite web|last=Dechian|first=Sonja|title=Jolley Prize 2019 (Winner): 'The Point-Blank Murder' by Sonja Dechian|url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2019/september-2019-no-414/417-september-2019-no-414/5784-jolley-prize-2019-winner-the-point-blank-murder-by-sonja-dechian|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-25|website=Australian Book Review|date=27 August 2019|language=en-gb|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415122750/https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2019/september-2019-no-414/417-september-2019-no-414/5784-jolley-prize-2019-winner-the-point-blank-murder-by-sonja-dechian |archive-date=15 April 2021 }}{{Cite web|last=Mem: 11610864|title=Dechian wins 2019 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize {{!}} Books+Publishing|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/09/12/139114/dechian-wins-2019-abr-elizabeth-jolley-short-story-prize/|access-date=2022-02-23|language=en-AU}}
2020 – Mykaela Saunders: River Story{{Cite web|last=Saunders|first=Mykaela|title=Jolley Prize 2020 (Winner): 'River Story' by Mykaela Saunders|url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2020/august-2020-no-423/830-august-2020-no-423/6639-jolley-prize-2020-shortlisted-river-story-by-mykaela-saunders|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-25|website=Australian Book Review|date=24 July 2020|language=en-gb|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210327003933/https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2020/august-2020-no-423/830-august-2020-no-423/6639-jolley-prize-2020-shortlisted-river-story-by-mykaela-saunders |archive-date=27 March 2021 }}{{Cite web|last=Mem: 11609560|title=Saunders wins 2020 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize {{!}} Books+Publishing|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/08/14/155191/saunders-wins-2020-abr-elizabeth-jolley-short-story-prize/|access-date=2022-02-23|language=en-AU}}
2021 – Camilla Chaudhary: The Enemy, Asyndeton{{Cite web|last=Mem: 11619344|title=Chaudhary wins 2021 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize {{!}} Books+Publishing|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/08/11/191370/chaudhary-wins-2021-elizabeth-jolley-short-story-prize/|access-date=2022-02-23|language=en-AU}}
2022 – Tracy Ellis: Natural Wonder{{cite web |title=Tracy Ellis Wins The 2022 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-programs/elizabeth-jolley-story-prize/2023-winner/47-competitionsandprograms/9472-tracy-ellis-wins-the-2022-abr-elizabeth-jolley-short-story-prize |website=australianbookreview.com |publisher=Australian Book Review |access-date=31 January 2024}}
2023 – Rowan Heath: The Mannequin{{cite web |title=2023 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-programs/elizabeth-jolley-story-prize/2023-winner |website=australianbookreview.com |publisher=Australian Book Review |access-date=31 January 2024}}

''ABR'' Arts

In 2012, Australian Book Review launched an extension of its coverage of Australian culture, Arts Update, now known as ABR Arts. It presents reviews of film and television, plays, operas, concerts, dance, and art exhibitions.

Podcasts

In 2015, Australian Book Review launched two podcasts: Poem of the Week and The ABR Podcast. The ABR Podcast was subsequently revived in 2020. Poem of the Week was discontinued in September 2016.{{cite web |title=Poem of the Week |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/arts-update/content/162-poem-of-the-week |website=australianbookreview.com |publisher=Australian Book Review |access-date=31 January 2024}}

Fellowships

ABR's Fellowship program began in 2011. Funded by ABR's Patrons and by philanthropic foundations, the Fellowship program is intended to reward Australian writers. Most ABR Fellowships are now worth $10,000. The Fellowship program was originally intended for the creation of a single piece of long-form journalism but since 2018 (starting with Beejay Silcox's ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellowship) Fellows have written and published several long articles over the course of twelve months.

= Fellowships =

[https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/patrick.allington Patrick Allington]: "What is Australia, anyway?" The glorious limitations of the Miles Franklin Literary Award
[https://www.bwb.co.nz/authors/rachel-buchanan/ Rachel Buchanan]: Sweeping Up the Ashes
Felicity Plunkett: Sound Bridges: A Profile of Gurrumul
Jennifer Lindsay: Man on the Margins
[http://www.ruthstarke.com/ Ruth Starke]: Media Don: A political enigma in pink shorts
Kerryn Goldsworthy: Everyone's a Critic
Helen Ennis: Olive Cotton at Spring Forest: The modernist photographer at Spring Forest
Arthur Fuhrmann: Patrick White: A theatre of his own
Danielle Clode: Seeing the wood for the trees
James McNamara: The Golden Age of Television?
Shannon Burns: The scientist of his own experience: A Profile of Gerald Murnane
Ashley Hay: The forest at the edge of time
Michael Aiken: extract from Satan Repentant
Alan Atkinson: How Do We Live With Ourselves? The Australian National Conscience
[https://www.adelaide.edu.au/adelaidean/issues/29582/news29603.html Philip Jones]: Beyond Songlines
Stephen Orr: Ambassadors from Another Time
Elisabeth Holdsworth: If This Is A Jew
Marguerite Johnson: "Picnic at Hanging Rock" fifty years on
Beejay Silcox (ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellow): We are all MFAs now!, The art of pain: Writing in the age of trauma, and This is the way the world ends
Felicity Plunkett: A mutinous and ferocious grace: Nick Cave and trauma's aftermath, review of The Weekend by Charlotte Wood, and a review of Summer by Ali Smith
Hessom Razavi (ABR Behrouz Boochani Fellowship): Notes on a Pandemic: How society has responded to Covid-19, Failures of imagination: A journey from Tehran's prisons to Australia's immigration detention centres, and The split state: Australia's binary myth about people seeking asylum

Rising Stars

The Rising Stars program was established in 2019.{{Cite web|date=2019-10-29|title=ABR Rising Stars|url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-programs/abr-rising-stars|access-date=2022-02-01|website=Australian Book Review|language=en-gb}} The program is intended to encourage younger writers, enhancing their critical practice and advancing their careers.

''ABR'' Laureates

The ABR Laureateship was inaugurated in 2014, with the naming of David Malouf as laureate.{{cite web |title=David Malouf named Australian Book Review's first laureate |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/david-malouf-named-australian-book-reviews-first-laureate-20140422-3724k.html |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=31 January 2024}} The laureateship was not only created to commemorate Australia's finest writers, but also to 'advance the work of a younger writer admired by the Laureate.'{{cite web |title=ABR Laureates |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/about/people/abr-laureates |website=australianbookreview.com |publisher=Australian Book Review |access-date=31 January 2024}} Each ABR Laureate nominates an ABR Laureate Fellow for mentorship with the Editor of the ABR, in preparation for the publication of a substantial work within the magazine.

= ''ABR'' Laureates =

2014: David Malouf
2016: Robyn Archer
2023: Sheila Fitzpatrick{{cite web |title=Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick named ABR Laureate |url=https://www.acu.edu.au/about-acu/news/2023/may/professor-sheila-fitzpatrick-named-abr-laureate |website=acu.edu.au |publisher=Australian Catholic University |access-date=31 January 2024}}

References

External links

[http://www.australianbookreview.com.au Australian Book Review]
[https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/podcast The ABR Podcast]
[https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-programs/calibre-prize Calibre Essay Prize]
[https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-programs/elizabeth-jolley-story-prize ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize]
[https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-programs/peter-porter-poetry-prize Peter Porter Poetry Prize]

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