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ABR Editor Peter Rose hosts the 2025 Peter Porter Poetry Prize at Readings, Carlton in February 2025.
Peter Rose and Sarah Holland-Batt at an ABR function in Sydney
Dan Disney, winner of the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, at ABR
Peter Rose and Sheila Fitzpatrick in conversation at the State Library of Victoria as Fitzpatrick becomes the third ABR Laureate, 2023.
Peter Rose, Sheila Fitzpatrick and Monash Dean of Arts Katie Stevenson at the Laureate event at the State Library of Victoria, 2023.
A. Frances Johnson wins the 2020 Peter Porter Poetry Prize (photograph by David Johns)
Peter Rose interviews ABR Laureate David Malouf in Adelaide, 2019
Lisa Gorton speaks at an ABR function, 2019
Billy Griffiths speaks at an ABR function, 2019
(L-R): Peter Rose with Rae Frances (centre) and Calibre Essay Prize winners David Hansen and Grace Karskens, August 2019
Helen Daniel (Editor of ABR 1995–2000) with Robert Dessaix, a contributor since 1981
Judge Maxine Beneba Clarke and Jolley Prize winner Sonja Dechian at the 2019 Jolley Prize ceremony (photograph by Daniel O'Brien)
2019 Jolley Prize shortlist (L-R): Morgan Nunan, Sonja Dechian, Raaza Jamshed (photograph by Daniel O'Brien)
Peter Rose interviews George Megalogenis at Clunes Booktown Festival, 2019
The 2019 Porter Prize shortlist: Ross Gillett, Mark Tredinnick, Belle Ling, Andy Kissane, and John Foulcher
The 2019 Porter Prize joint winners: Belle Ling and Andy Kissane
ABR Fellow Beejay Silcox in Cairo, Egypt (November, 2018)
John Hawke Morag Fraser Nicholas Wong Peter Rose Porter Prize event 2018
Peter Rose and Sarah Holland Batt at Writers Week 2018
Peter Rose and Pam Brown at Writers Week 2018
Porter Prize 2017
Christopher Menz leads the 2017 ABR UK tour.
Michael Adams and Darius Sepehri at Calibre Essay Prize event 2017
2017 States of Poetry Tasmania
Peter Rose and Robert Silvers at NYRB 2016
ABR US cultural tour at the Clark Institute 2016
Geraldine Brooks Ambassador Caroline Millar Anna Funder ABR US tour 2016
ABR US tour at Concord 2016
ABR team with Rae Frances at Monash launch 2
Robyn Archer launches the Arts issue 2016
2016 Porter Prize Amanda Joy
ABR Patrons Annual Lecture with Kim Williams 2016
ABR Patrons Annual Lecture 2016 Kim Williams
Ashley Hay visits the ABR office in 2015
ABR Deputy Editor Amy Baillieu edits the first ABR Podcast in 2015.
Jonathan Galassi and Peter Rose at the 2015 Brisbane Writers' Festival
2014 Calibre Essay Prize winner Christine Piper signs the guestbook at ABR.
2014 ABR Patrons' Fellow Shannon Burns
ABR Eucalypt Australia (formerly known as the Dahl Trust) Fellow Danielle Clode at the launch of the Environment issue, 2014
ABR Laureate David Malouf speaks at an ABR event, 2014
Morag Fraser speaks at an ABR event, 2014
Jennifer Down wins the 2014 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Andy Griffiths and Gerald Murnane at an event at Boyd, 2013
Lisa Gorton and Ian Donaldon speak at the first Fireside Chat at Boyd, 2012
Peter Rose, Morag Fraser, and Rodney Hall at opening of Boyd in 2012
ABR moved to Boyd Community Hub in Southbank in 2012
Ian Dickson, Carrie Tiffany, and Gregory Day at the 2011 Jolley Prize ceremony
ABR Board 2011 Ian Donaldson, Paul Hetherington, Anne Edwards, Peter Rose, Editor Morag Fraser, Chair Colin Golvan and Anna Goldsworthy.
Ian Donaldson gives the ABR Fiftieth Birthday Lecture at the National Library of Australia in 2011
The 2003 National Biography Award was shared by Don Watson and Peter Rose
Peter Rose and Peter Porter 2002
Current Editor and CEO of Australian Book Review, Peter Rose
Peter Rose and Terry Cutler at the launch of the 2001 Summer issue
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