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Fierceland, the energetic, adventurous winner of this year’s Miles Franklin, asks what it means to inherit a world already being dismantled.
These Miles Franklin shortlisted novels offer six very different answers to the question: what can Australian fiction be – and do?
Michael Winkler’s quietly provocative second novel, Griefdogg, asks: what if you had enough money to just … exist?
The six inventive books shortlisted for the 2025 Miles Franklin explore ideas of identity, self and nationhood – and play with both ideas and form.
Salvage is a heartbreaking, life-affirming Australian dystopia that centres human connection – as the rich search for ways to escape and the poor salvage what they can.
Michelle de Kretser has won the Stella Prize for the first time. Her winning novel, Theory & Practice, is currently longlisted for the Miles Franklin.
Each of these writers, in their own way, modelled what it is to be an ‘inconvenient’ woman – something we need now, perhaps more than ever.
Evidence suggests male writers and readers are in decline – in Australia and elsewhere. Is a male-only publishing house the solution?
In 1903, Miles Franklin went undercover to investigate the ‘servant question’. The exploitation she saw continues today.
Elegy, Southwest, by Miles Franklin shortlisted author Madeleine Watts, weaves together the themes of imminent personal and environmental collapse.
Freedom and feminism take the stage in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s musical revival of My Brilliant Career.
Shankari Chandran’s Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, which explores Australian racism and the Sri Lankan civil war, is ‘extraordinary’.
The latest novel by twice Miles Franklin winner Alex Miller traces one woman’s journey from self-absorption and isolation, to generosity and friendship.
David Ireland’s masterful mosaic novels explored sweeping existential issues and their impact on the lives of those oblivious to them. They were characterised by his vision, compassion and wit.
Miles Franklin’s masterpiece features an untamed, unapologetic heroine, positing a choice between career and love rather than women ‘having it all’.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction has just published 25 literary works by female authors with their real names for the first time. Could we do the same for Miles Franklin and Henry Handel Richardson here?
As we enter the age of the Anthropocene, there is a growing recognition of different kinds of ‘un-real’ storytelling.
There is a surprising degree of compassion in the narrative voices of this year’s five shortlisted novels. They are a heart-warming selection.
And we have a winner. Black Rock White City, AS Patric’s dark, sorrowful story has impressed the judges sufficiently for them to award it first prize. I too was captured by the world of the novel, and…
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor in Writing and Literature, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Senior Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, English, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
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Assistant Researcher, School of Languages and Culture, The University of Queensland
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Forrest Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, English & Literary Studies, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Tasmania