Marginalia — The Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript

2016 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist sneak peek: Ann-Marie Priest

February 10, 2017 • Charlotte Guest • The Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript

Read an extract from 'A Free Flame' by Ann-Marie Priest, one of the manuscripts shortlisted for the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award.

2016 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist sneak peek: Odette Kelada

January 20, 2017 • Charlotte Guest • The Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript

Read an extract from 'Drawing Sybylla' by Odette Kelada, one of the manuscripts shortlisted for the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award.

2016 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist sneak peek: Rachael Mead

January 12, 2017 • Charlotte Guest • The Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript

Read an extract from 'The Flaw in the Pattern' by Rachael Mead, one of the manuscripts shortlisted for the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award.

Lucy Dougan launches Extinctions by Josephine Wilson

November 1, 2016 • Charlotte Guest • Extinctions • Josephine Wilson • Launch • Lucy Dougan • The Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript

What is it that we want a novel to do? I think we want it to be about big ideas. I think we want it to ask deeply difficult human questions. I think we want it to speak to now and, I think we want – and maybe without really understanding why or how, at least on an initial read, for the very form to somehow also be telling the story. I really can’t begin to tell all the elegant ways in which Jo achieves this in Extinctions but she does it from page one.