Beejay Silcox News Today

New CEOs, Executive Directors, Literary Editors and more make up this week's round-up of arts sector appointments, comings and goings.

In her newest published essay Why your hair is long and your stories short , award-winning author and University of Waikato senior lecturer Tracey Slaughter...

The 73-year-old has won the $60,000 prize for Australian female and non-binary writers for her ‘genre-bending’ 736-page novel

The Indigenous writer has won the $60,000 award for her acclaimed novel, Praiseworthy, making her the first to win the prize twice.

Alexis Wright is now a two-time winner of the Stella Prize with her novel Praiseworthy taking home the spoils.

Is Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy the great Australian novel? Beejay Silcox, chair of the Stella Prize judging panel that selected it as this year’s winner, thinks it might be.

Government expert council warns on supply shortfall in first state of the market report; parents to urged to check children’s online viewing habits

Tracey Slaughter – from Aotearoa New Zealand – has won the 2024 Calibre Essay Prize. Slaughter becomes the first overseas writer to claim the Calibre Prize. Judges Amy Baillieu, Shannon Burns, and Beejay Silcox chose ‘why your hair is long & ...

Fifty Squared Art Prize open for entries, plus winner of Calibre Essay Prize and finalists of wearable art, and more!

Small press publishing houses dominate the shortlist of this year's Stella Prize.