Congratulations Giramondo authors on the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.
Big congratulations from NewSouth Books to Gerald Murnane for Border Districts (Giramondo), winner of the Fiction category, and Brian Castro for Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria (Giramondo), winner of the Poetry category.
2018 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing winner announced
Congratulations to Dr Andrew Leigh MP, winner of the 2018 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing with his essay ‘From bloodletting to placebo surgery’. Runners-up prizes were awarded to Jo Chandler for ‘Amid fear and guns, polio finds a refuge’ and Margaret Wertheim for ‘Radical Dimensions’.
'The Best Australian Science Writing 2018', edited by John Pickrell, contains all the winning and shortlisted entries among a collection of the year’s best writing from Australian science communicators.