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Who reads men’s fiction?
Caron Eastgate Dann, author of Imagining Siam: a traveller’s literary guide to Thailand, responds to the question: Do men and women write differently? If you’d asked me the question “Is women’s writing...
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Is The Getting of Wisdom anti-feminist? Virginia Lloyd thinks so.
(Imported from Blogger; formatting glitches need to be fixed) While Miles Franklin tends to get a lot of attention because of the literary award, another prominent Australian who chose to publish under...
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Our beautiful meritocracy – Tara Moss on gender bias
We live in a meritocracy – a merits-based world untainted by biases and personal prejudices. To celebrate the shift to a new website, AWW revisits the question of gender bias with Tara Moss, the author...
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2014 Challenge – sign-up now open
AWW badge What is it? The 2014 Australian Women Writers Challenge was set up to help overcome gender bias in the reviewing of books by Australian women. The challenge encourages avid readers and book...
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2014 AWW challenge officially open – happy year of reading
Happy new year, everyone, including veterans of AWW2012 and AWW2013, as well as new challenge participants. AWW Badge 2014 The AWW2014 challenge is officially open. That means, you can now sign up, and...
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If you aren’t part of the solution…
Alisa Krasnostein from Twelfth Planet Press discusses the impact of AWW and recent exchanges about gender bias in SpecFic. From the start, the Australian Women Writers Challenge has been a bold and...
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Thank you for 2014! What’s new for 2015?
AWW 2015 badge In 2014, the Australian Women Writers challenge attracted 1578 reviews of books by Australian women (and there may be more to come). That’s a fantastic achievement and I want to thank...
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