{"id":1516,"date":"2012-11-27T20:46:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T10:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2014-01-05T14:38:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T04:38:28","slug":"australian-women-writers-challenge-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"Australian Women Writers’ challenge 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 2012 Australian Women Writers’ Challenge was an outstanding experience for me. The cause was worthy – challenging the lack of critical attention for Australian women authors. The personal benefits were fantastic – providing the impetus to expand my exposure to interesting authors I hadn’t had the chance to experience<\/p>\n

As you can see from my “Mission Accomplished?” post<\/a> from earlier in the year, I was able to meet the challenge goal of reading and reviewing at least 10 books by Australian women writers. I stuck to the speculative fiction genre. That’s how I roll.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the challenge so much, I’ve decided to give it a go again in 2013. The AWWC website<\/a> has been revamped and the subscription process much fancier as a result. Inspired by this sophisticated example of web-based renewal I have decided to stretch myself and undertake exactly the same challenge as 2012.<\/p>\n

You heard me. Exactly. The. Same.<\/p>\n

So I’ll be undertaking the Franklin challenge (read 10 books, review at least 6) and all those books will be in the speculative fiction field. Some may call me stale and unable to embrace change. I view myself as a man on a quest for perfection, willing to put in the hard yards to refine my reviewing art to its most pure and potent form.<\/p>\n

If you are inspired by my willingness to scale new heights of reviewing goodness, you should head over to the AWWC 2013 sign up page<\/a> and join me in another year of spreading the word about some of the great writing by Australian women authors.<\/p>\n

Edit 5\/1\/2014:<\/strong><\/p>\n

My current intended reading list (and status):<\/p>\n

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  1. Perfections<\/em> by Kirstyn McDermott – complete<\/span>: review here<\/a>
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  2. A Trifle Dead<\/em> by Livia Day – complete<\/span>: review here<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Bluegrass Symphony<\/em> by Lisa L. Hannett<\/li>\n
  4. The Ambassador’s Mission<\/em> by Trudi Canavan<\/li>\n
  5. Bitter Greens<\/em> by Kate Forsyth<\/li>\n
  6. Suited<\/em> by Jo Anderton – complete<\/span>: review here<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Dark Space\u00a0<\/i>by Marianne de Pierres – complete<\/span>: review here<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Winter Be My Shield<\/em> by Jo Spurrier<\/li>\n
  9. The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf\u00a0<\/em>by Ambelin Kwaymullina – complete<\/span>: review here<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Black Glass<\/em> by Meg Mundell – complete<\/span>: review here<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. The Accidental Sorcerer\u00a0<\/em>by K. E. Mills – complete<\/span>: review here<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Asymmetry<\/em> by Thoraiya Dyer – complete<\/span>: review here<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. New Ceres Nights<\/em>\u00a0edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Tehani Wessely –\u00a0<\/em>complete<\/span>: review here<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. <\/em>Caution: Contains Small Parts\u00a0<\/em>by Kirstyn McDermott – complete:\u00a0review here<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. Witches Incorporated\u00a0<\/em>by K. E. Mills – complete:\u00a0review here<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Wizard Squared\u00a0<\/em>by K. E. Mills – complete:\u00a0review here<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. Wizard Undercover<\/em>\u00a0by K. E. Mills – complete:\u00a0review here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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    <\/p>Hi,\n

    Welcome to Mark Webb’s author website. At this point the site is rather sparse – I’ve only recently started writing and there isn’t a lot to show for it right now. You can check out\u00a0my biography<\/a>, see …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[84,14,15],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-awwc2013","tag-review","tag-specfic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}