After hearing about it on Galactic Suburbia, I’m joining the Australian Women Writers Challenge next year!
In 2012 I pledge to read… oh, what the heck, I’ll go for the biggie, the Franklin-fantastic: Ten books by Australian women writers, and I’ll review four (though I don’t guarantee big detailed reviews; I’m not the best reviewer on the block).
I plan to read in more than one genre, so that makes me an aspiring Franklin-fantastic Dabbler. I’m going to add a little extra to this challenge, and say that of my ten books, at least two will be by Aboriginal women. I expect to read mostly in YA and speculative fiction, though I’m also going to try to read at least a couple of books outside of these genres.
For YA, I might mine the Inky Awards back catalogue; for SF, I might start with reviews on Galactic Suburbia and Tansy Rayner Roberts’ list. Or maybe with my to-be-read-bookcase: I have a fair few already on there that qualify: a couple of Twelve Planets, Glitter Rose, some Margo Lanagan, Angela Slatter, and Penni Russon. (I wonder what the status is of anthologies that have a large proportion of Australian women writers?)
The Challenge is open to all readers, not just Australians. Will you join in?
The Goodreads group for the Challenge
Related Posts:
- Happy International Womens Day by Mindy
- Call for Guest Reviews: 2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge by Lauredhel
- 2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge in summary by Jo Tamar
- 2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review: Monkey Grip by Helen Garner by Jo Tamar
- Book Review: The Service of Clouds by Delia Falconer by Mindy
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I am definitely signing on to this challenge. I too hope to be a Franklin-Fantastic Dabbler! This looks like fun :)
Looking forward to this, I like having guides for finding authors new to me. Great idea.
I am going to sign up as a Franklin-Fantastic Devoted Eclectic – when I get some time with my computer over the next few days. I may as well sign up for Goodreads while I’m at it.
But damn! This means a good half of the books I’ve bought over the past 2 days will need to be set aside until 1 Jan so I can count them for the challenge!
[...] to lauredhel and Galactic Suburbia, I have been made aware of the 2012 Australian Women Writers [...]
I don’t have a blog appropriate for reviewing but I will be doing the challenge. I read 18 books by Australian Women Writers in 2011 and I hope to better than in 2012. I set myself a 100 book challenge each year and have reached my goal the last 4 years. I read 137 books last year.
bri, you’d be very welcome to guest post book reviews here at HaT – most welcome indeed!
Bugger, wish I’d read this earlier (no excuse really). I read ‘Geography’ and ‘Bird’ by Sophie Cunningham (@sophiec on twitter) late last year. If I’d held off I could have counted them. I’d recommend them both, although I enjoyed Geography more but YMMV.
There are a couple of Penni Russons at my local library…
[...] hoping to be a Franklin-Fantastic1 dabbler2, with an extra level. Following the lead from Lauredhel at Hoyden About Town, at least 2 of the books I review will be by Aboriginal Australian women. I’ve signed up on [...]
I might just take you up on that tigtog! I will be in touch when I have read something for the list.