Sydney Review of Books

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Sydney Review of Books
EditorJames Jiang
Former editors James Ley, Catriona Menzies-Pike
PublisherWriting and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University
First issue 2013 (2013-month)
CountryAustralia
Based inParramatta, NSW
LanguageEnglish
Website sydneyreviewofbooks.com
ISSN 2201-8735

The Sydney Review of Books (SRB) is an online literary magazine established in 2013. [1] [2]

Contents

According to the journal's inaugural editor James Ley it was created to address shortcomings in Australian book reviews. [3] [1]

Awards

In 2019 SRB contributor Fiona Kelly McGregor won the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Non-Fiction for her essay on Kathleen Mary Fallon's 'Working Hot'. [4] In 2019 SRB contributor Jeff Sparrow won the Walkley-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism for his review essay of Behrouz Boochani's No Friend But The Mountains. [5] In 2018 SRB contributor Delia Falconer won this award for an essay on writing and extinction entitled 'The Opposite of Glamour'. [6]

Editors

James Ley was the founding editor of the Sydney Review of Books (2013–2015). [7] [8] He was replaced by Catriona Menzies-Pike (2015–2022), [8] [9] while James Jiang was appointed editor in 2023. [9]

Funding

The journal is funded by Western Sydney University's Writing and Society Research Centre, the Australia Council, Create NSW, the Copyright Agency, Creative Victoria, Arts Queensland, Arts Tasmania, City of Sydney and Parramatta City. [10]

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