Bulletin

Issue: June 2005

People

Literary prize

La Trobe University senior lecturer in English, Dr Alison Ravenscroft, has won the 2005 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize for a short story titled Object Lessons.

Her winning entry is part of a larger writing project of the same name. It deals with the meanings held by objects, in particular the lessons they carry to young girls about femininity. Judges for the award included leading Australian novelists, Frank Moorhouse, Amanda Lohrey and Michael Wilding. The $10,000 prize, commemorating a Queensland writer, poet, and arts patron, is administered by Griffith University's School of Arts.

Dr Ravenscroft's story will be published in the next issue of the literary and media studies journal, Griffith Review, and in anthologies.