Last night, in the State Library of Victoria’s Cowen Gallery, Carmel Bird’s digital collection, The Dead Aviatrix, was launched by Jonathan Green and Carmel launched the new digital literary award named in her honour. In this post, we bring you some excerpts of the speeches and some photographs of the action. A fun part of … Read More
Guest blogger, Rebecca Parker reports on the recent launch of Carmel Bird’s latest collection, My Hearts Are Your Hearts and the Michael McGirr Selects series of digital long stories. On Saturday the 25th of July I traipsed up the stairs of Berkelouw books to attend my first book launch. Walking into a room full of … Read More
We are pleased to announce the twelve finalists in the 2014 Carmel Bird Award, judged by Michael McGirr. Our mission for the 2014 competition was to find the best Australian long stories between 4,000 and 10,000 words. We received an unprecedented number of entries and our hard-working judge declared that the whole exercise had been … Read More
What Amanda Lohrey said about Felicity Volk’s winning story – Go, you are sent forth (Ite, missa est) ‘ I chose this as the winner because it is a fully developed story. It took me somewhere interesting, it surprised me at several turns, i.e. it developed, and developed interestingly, and it took some bold risks … Read More
Most literary awards (Hal Porter, Josephine Ulrick, Elizabeth Jolley) are named after writers who are now dead. How do you feel about the Spineless Wonders short story competition being named after you? Dead or alive, it is flattering to have my work in short fiction recognised in this way. I never actually think that Elizabeth … Read More
