"We continued to hand over cold hard Eftpos to find out how to jettison our bad behaviours and to care less about the unimportant stuff.
Can we declare Catherine Chidgey the winner of literary 2023? Chidgey’s a dark rural drama featuring a talking magpie, won the year’s Ockham fiction prize and the author pocketed $64,000. The book, which came out last year and has been reprinted a number of times, remained a constant in the bestseller lists, alongside the author and creative writing teacher’s 2023Anew novel, is in the wings.
