Featured Week in Review essays
Call for applications: JUNCTURE fellowship program for literary critics
WIth support from the Ian Potter Foundation, the SRB is offering three year-long fellowships to mid-career and established Australian literary critics. Fellowship recipients will be paid $12,000 over twelve months to write eight longform review essays about new works of Australian and international literature. Applications due 1 July. 
New staff at the SRB
We’re absolutely thrilled to share the news of two new staff appointments at the Sydney Review of Books. From 1 July Andrew Brooks¬†and Alice Desmond will start working with our team at the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University.
On The Genius of Les Murray
But why is this word “Genius” being bandied around so much in poetry here, in Australia in particular – the noun in particular — not so much the adjective which very loosely is a synonym for ‘ingenious’ meaning “well thought out”. Genius, the noun sounds more like it belongs to the era of the Industrial Revolution, in an age that included the steam-whistle and train shovel — when industrialists & merchants took 2 round cast-iron plates and had them riveted together — perhaps they were merely being “engine-ious”. Was Ned Kelly a Genius?’
Week in Review
Call for applications: JUNCTURE fellowship program for literary critics
WIth support from the Ian Potter Foundation, the SRB is offering three year-long fellowships to mid-career and established Australian literary critics. Fellowship recipients will be paid $12,000 over twelve months to write eight longform review essays about new works of Australian and international literature. Applications due 1 July. 
New staff at the SRB
We’re absolutely thrilled to share the news of two new staff appointments at the Sydney Review of Books. From 1 July Andrew Brooks¬†and Alice Desmond will start working with our team at the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University.
On The Genius of Les Murray
But why is this word “Genius” being bandied around so much in poetry here, in Australia in particular – the noun in particular — not so much the adjective which very loosely is a synonym for ‘ingenious’ meaning “well thought out”. Genius, the noun sounds more like it belongs to the era of the Industrial Revolution, in an age that included the steam-whistle and train shovel — when industrialists & merchants took 2 round cast-iron plates and had them riveted together — perhaps they were merely being “engine-ious”. Was Ned Kelly a Genius?’
2019 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowships
We are offering three fellowships to emerging Australian critics: each fellow will have the opportunity to write three essays on new Australian books for publication on the Sydney Review of Books website in 2019. Fellows will receive editorial support and mentorship as they write these essays, as well as each being paid $3000.