Writing & Society news, prizes and publications

News, prizes and publications

• John Hughes' book Someone Else: Fictional Essays (Giramondo, 2007) has been nominated for the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing. John is an adjunct with the Writing & Society Research Group.
• Chris Fleming talks about Girard on the Philosopher's Zone here.
• Christopher Kremmer, a Writing & Society postgraduate student, recently gave a talk on greed in the PEN Voices series. Listen here.
• Read the transcript of Nicholas Jose's History Address, 'Refreshing Literary History', given at the 2008 NSW Premier's History Awards ceremony.
• Writing and Society congratulates Gail Jones on her recent shortlistings, including those for the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (for her novel Dreams of Speaking), and the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards (both for her novel Sorry).
• Jane Goodall recently edited, with Christa Knellwolf, the collection Frankenstein's Science (Ashgate, 2008), which contextualises Mary Shelley's work in contemporary scientific and literary debates. Jane's book on Stage Presence is forthcoming from Routledge in 2008.
• Anthony Uhlmann's Beckett and Poststructuralism was reprinted by Cambridge University Press in 2008. Cambridge published Anthony's work Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image in 2006.
• Burning In, written by Mireille Juchau and published by the Giramondo book imprint, has been shortlisted for the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Awards, 2008, Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Nita B. Kibble Literary Award and Highly Commended in the inaugural Barbara Jefferis Award.
• Not Finding Wittgenstein shortlisted for the 2008 Age Book of the Year for Poetry and also for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal and the Adelaide Festival John Bray Award for Poetry.
• Sara Knox's novel The Orphan Gunner has been shortlisted for the 2008 Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book.
• Someone Else, by John Hughes, is the winner of the 2008 Adelaide Festival Award for Innovation.
• An Illustrated History of Dairies shortlisted for the 2008 NSW Premier's Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.