The Stella Prize 2020 winner is announced tonight (tune in for the live announcement here). Continue reading
Tag Archives: Josephine Rowe
Here Until August by Josephine Rowe
According to the publishers, the short stories in Josephine Rowe’s collection, Here Until August, explore the point of change in people’s lives. And yes, the collection delivers that – the ten stories examine thresholds, internal and external boundaries, and points-of-no-return. But there’s also a theme of belonging in each of these carefully crafted stories, explored through memory; through people being in foreign places; and people returning ‘home’ (but not necessarily ‘belonging’).
The collection opens with Glisk, a story about the return of the narrator’s older brother to a small town. There’s a past trauma and a deceit, and when the deceit is revealed, it tips everything the narrator has known sideways.
I’m waiting behind the flyscreen, feeling everything I’d neatly flat-packed springing up in me. Continue reading
Stella Prize 2020 shortlist
My Stella Prize longlist reading effort only started last week…. and it turns out that I’ve read the majority of the shortlist. Yay for me!
Here it is: Continue reading
Longlist fatigue. It’s a thing.
I was really looking forward to the Stella longlist announcement. I made a bunch of reservations at the library, and started on a book I already had…. and then it all fizzled. Reading has never been a chore and yet, here I was, with Lucky Ticket by Joey Bui on my ‘to do’ list. Continue reading
The 2020 Stella Prize Longlist
Every year my kids’ school has a vital information night on at the same time as the Stella Prize longlist announcement. So, while I would have preferred to be at the Melba Spiegeltent for the announcement, I was instead in a school hall, pretending to listen to VCE study tips and surreptitiously looking at Twitter as the longlist was revealed.
I’m home now and I’m ready to start reading. Continue reading
Stella Prize 2020 Longlist Predictions
The Stella Prize 2020 longlist will be announced tomorrow night.
Unlike the judges, I’ve only read a dozen or so eligible books but I’m aware of a bunch that keep crossing my radar. On that rather flimsy basis, I’m predicting the longlist*. Continue reading