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Monday musings on Australian literature: Shortlist for the inaugural 20/40 Prize Last November, I announced the creation of the new 20/40 Publishing Prize by the wonderful (and local-ish to me), independent, non-profit publisher, Finlay Lloyd. Now, eleven months later, the awardin...

Shortlist for Finlay Lloyd’s exciting new novella prize 20/40 announced: whisperinggums.com/2023/10/09/m... Winner to be announced on 28 October. Pre-order details in the blog post.

Susan Glaspell, A jury of her peers (#Review) One of my retirement activities is to co-ordinate a little band of volunteer indexers at the National Film and Sound Archive. Not only do we do useful work for the Archive, but we get to socialise a l...

A surprising short story from 1917 about women enacting agency despite the male condescension confronting them whisperinggums.com/2023/10/05/s...

Carmel Bird, Love letter to Lola (#BookReview) In her prose piece, "Ocean of story" (my post), Christina Stead wrote that It is only when the short story is written to a rigid plan, or done as an imitation, that it dies. It dies when it is pinned ...

Carmel Bird has again produced a read that makes you laugh and squirm, that tackles today’s issues with wit and whimsy, heart and intelligence whisperinggums.com/2023/09/29/c...

Another carefully crafted crime novel from Shelley Burr, the author of Wake whisperinggums.com/2023/09/16/s... #ruralnoir #shelleyburr #aussiecrime

Pat Barker, The women of Troy (#BookReview) I shocked my reading group last week when I announced during our discussion of Pat Barker's novel, The women of Troy, that I was tiring of feminist re-imaginings of historical women. This is not to sa...

Another reimagined Classic - this from Pat Barker. The women of Troy. whisperinggums.com/2023/09/09/p...