You can find a list of past AWW team members here.įrom 2022, the website will no longer host a challenge for works by contemporary authors, but will instead focus on 19th- and 20th-century authors who may not have achieved prominence in their lifetimes, or whose works have been forgotten and/or overlooked. The challenge was initially coordinated by Elizabeth Lhuede and later by Theresa Smith, and along the way many bloggers, authors and academics have played a part in the project. The AWW reading and reviewing challenge lasted for 10 years and helped to bring attention to works by Australian women in all genres. Its purpose was to promote reviewing of books by Australian women and was inspired, in part, by the statistical evidence supplied by the VIDA report, and later the Stella Count, that works by women were less likely than works by men to be reviewed in mainstream media and literary journals. “ The Australian Women Writers website began life as a reading and reviewing challenge in 2012. This is from the about section on the AWW website and just lets you know the direction that we are going from next year. I may do a final roundup at the end of the month, but will have to see how things fit in. But this is a super post, and possibly the last because AWW is changing direction next year. Hello, I’m so sorry for missing October, life just got in the way and before I knew it poof, the first Wednesday disappeared into a time vortex.

October writing challenge 2021