ABR subscribers can read all previous prize-winning and shortlisted stories to the Jolley Prize. If you aren't a subscriber, digital subscriptions begin at only $10 per month. Click here to become an ABR subscriber. 2024 Jill Van Epps: ‘Pornwald’ Jill Van Epps from New York...| Australian Book Review
I first came across Elizabeth Jolley’s writing in Meanjin in 1979. A story called The Bench (now retitled Adam’s Bride in her Penguin collection Woman in a Lampshade) opens with these sentences: Al…| Meanjin
Monica Elizabeth Knight was born in Birmingham, England on the 4th June 1923. She was privately tutored at home until age 11, before being sent to a Quaker school in Banbury for her highschool year…| This Reading Life
Today I saw a picture of Jude with a child. Not one of the fair-haired nieces I remember from photographs around the Old House, who would be grown by now, but a dark-haired little girl. We’ve…| This Reading Life
Before he left the family, my father worked as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company. He travelled from chemist to chemist with samples of pills and lotions and pastes in the back of …| This Reading Life
