Want to work at Australian Book Review?

Each year Australian Book Review offers a fully paid editorial internship for an early career editor looking for a permanent career in the publishing sector. Few, if any, paid internships are available in this country. The internship is worth a total of $45,000 per annum. We are currently advertising for a fifteen-month internship, to commence in March 2015. Applications close on 29 February. To be eligible applicants must have an editing/publishing degree or equivalent editorial experience. You can read the full position description here.

Two indigenous scholarships from the Melbourne Theatre Company

Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) – in partnership with the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development – is seeking applications for two scholarships for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are preparing for tertiary studies, or employment, in the performing arts. Each scholarship is worth $15,000. Scholarship recipients will also receive mentoring, tickets to performances, etc. Applications close on 19 February.

Bruckner galore

In the November 2015 issue of Australian Book Review, the Editor lamented the dearth of Bruckner on Australian concert programs. We shall have to send him to New York City next January. To mark the sixtieth anniversary of his Carnegie Hall début (that's some career!), Daniel Barenboim will conduct his Staatskapelle Berlin in a complete Bruckner cycle. Could this be the first time Bruckner's nine numbered symphonies have been performed together? Among those nine magisterial symphonies (testing for some, transcendent to others), Daniel Barenboim will also play and conduct several Mozart piano concertos.

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