A Prize of One’s Own: sisters create a lit award for themselvesThe 2001 Miles Franklin shortlist was a “sausage-fest” with no Aussie female author making the cut, again. It was enough to anger writer Sophie Cunningham to start up an award similar to Britain’s acclaimed Orange Prize.
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A new editor for Meanjin, and ‘all is well’ at MUP
Yesterday’s announcement that newly-appointed Melbourne University Press associate editor Sally Heath will succeed Sophie Cunningham as editor of Meanjin has set the literary-world aflutter.
book reviews Daily Proposition: Read a tasty morsel of a novel
Author Sophie Cunningham suffered a fairly ugly break-up last month from literary journal Meanjin. Which might be good news for readers — her novels are wonderful, particularly her latest, Bird.
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Little mag David vs. uni Goliath
Former editor of literary journal Meanjin, Jim Davidson, made damning remarks about ownership of the magazine, its takeover by Melbourne University Press and interference by management, in a speech about the history of Meanjin — with all the management listening from the front row, reports W H Chong.
Meanjin editor breaks silence on departure, MUP
Departing Meanjin editor Sophie Cunningham has told Crikey she only met Melbourne University Press (MUP) chairman Alan Kohler once during her three year reign and that she was locked out of formal discussions about the publication’s future.
Black Canons: Peter Craven writes back
Meanjin editor Sophie Cunningham took Peter Craven to task for his review of the latest Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature. Here Peter Craven replies.
