Australian Women Writers Challenge discussion

Welcome to our 6th year of the Australian Women Writers Challenge!

The AWW challenge was set up to help overcome gender bias in the reviewing of books by Australian women. The challenge encourages avid readers and book bloggers, male and female, living in or outside Australia, to read and review books by Australian women throughout the year. You can choose to read and review, or read only. (Our AWW review guidelines can be found here.)

This year, we’re particularly interested to see whether participants can review “classics” – books that might once have been popular but which have now fallen out of favour. On the AWW blog, we plan to dedicate a whole month to them, including authors whose names I’d never heard of such as Ernestine Hill, Henrietta Drake-Brockman, and Patsy Adam-Smith. If you know of any other authors or books that might fit the bill, let me know and we’ll see if we can add them to our AWW group book shelves.

We’re also keen to get more nonfiction and poetry reviews, as these are areas I’ve identified as lacking for the challenge so far.

The challenge will run from Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2017. You can sign up throughout the year till the end of November.

How to join
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- download the 2017 AWW badge (above)
- create a sign-up post for your blog (if you have one) and here in the group
- enter your details in our sign-up form.
- Please follow the AWW blog or sign up for our newsletter while you’re at it. It’s a great way of staying in touch. Please include the optional additional information where relevant – it’ll help us get to know you. *Note: your information will not be used for any non-AWW-related activity.
-Nominate the number of books you plan to read throughout the year and share your reading on social media, such as in our new Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/18223... and on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/AusWomenWr... (using the hashtag #aww2017), or here on Goodreads.

Choose your level:

Stella: read 4 – if reviewing, review at least 3
Miles: read 6 – if reviewing, review at least 4
Franklin: read 10 – if reviewing, review at least 6
Create your own challenge: nominate your own goal e.g. “Classics Challenge”

We’re also putting together another AWW Bingo card for 2017 so keep an eye out for that – it’s a lot of fun.

Here's to another great year of reading books by Australian women! I hope you'll join us.

Lizzy

Hey Lizzy, the "our sign up form", Facebook and Twitter links don't work :) Or the badge (if that's meant to)

Can't wait to get started (well yes I can - the time goes fast as it is!)

Thanks Brenda. I managed to get the Sign-up form right, but am still having trouble with the FB group and Twitter.

The links are https://www.facebook.com/groups/18223... and https://mobile.twitter.com/AusWomenWr.... I don't know why they're not working!

The links are linking now Lizzy :) I'll just check them out!

Brenda wrote: "The links are linking now Lizzy :) I'll just check them out!"
I had hope to have them masked, using the html, but for some reason, it wouldn't work for me. I guess I'll just leave the web addresses. I don't think anyone will mind!

They're working great Lizzy :) The only thing I'd suggest is putting 2017 in the header somewhere if you can ...

Lizzy wrote: "Brenda wrote: "The links are linking now Lizzy :) I'll just check them out!"
I had hope to have them masked, using the html, but for some reason, it wouldn't work for me. I guess I'll just leave th..."

No of course they won't!

All signed up!

Lovely Theresa :) We'll set up the 2017 threads for participants a little later in the month. Make sure you pop back :)

Will do Brenda. I still have one more book I'd like to read for my 2016 challenge before I call it.

Excellent :) Enjoy!

Thanks for the invitation I have signed up for 4 this year but will aim for more in 2018 when I have a blog set up.

Glad you're joining us for 2017 Ace!

Brenda wrote: "Glad you're joining us for 2017 Ace!"

Thanks Brenda, I'm happy to be participating!

I didn't get any email confirmation when I signed up. Should I have had something sent through? Just want to make sure I submitted my entry correctly.

No there isn't anything like that. I guess if you did it wrong, it would let you know (the form wouldn't submit!) I discovered that when I was adding a review this year and I left out a couple of things. It almost yelled at me! lol

I've singed up, but seeing as I'm going to join in on the Classic challenge as well do I need to fill out another sign up form?

Not as far as I know Sharon - it's all combined into the one AWW challenge - but Lizzy is going to collate the Classics which are read into separate posts and then we'll hopefully get loads more Classics read for 2017 :)

Don't forget to open your thread in the Classics folder as well though :)

Okay thanks Brenda :)

You're welcome :)

I just tried doing my 2017 sign-up twice and both times I got a message saying "Invalid Entry: Error recording Challenge. Please Try Again" when the page reloaded after I pressed submt. Should I just try again or is there a chance it did go through but is giving me the error message anyway? I don't want to spam the mods with duplicate sign-ups!

Did you use the "our sign up form" in the first post Emily? And did you scroll down until you got "sign-up here"? Filled everything in and clicked "submit"?

I can't check as I've already signed up, but if you did all that, I'll contact Lizzy to check it out for you :) Sorry it's giving you grief!

Hi Brenda,

I went straight to the site and followed the link from the homepage, but I figure that shouldn't make any difference. I filled out all the fields but didn't check any of the ticky boxes as they didn't apply. Just tried again this morning and had the same issue again.

Thanks Emily - apparently there's a bug and Lizzy is aware of it. You're not the only one it's happened to. The directive from her is: "Could you email me your sign up details to australianwomenwriters@gmail.com?"

So she'll be expecting your email :)

Ah, thanks Brenda! I'll do that now!

Great :)

Have just signed up, and I hope I'll be a better reviewer this year!

Good luck Leonie :)

Brenda wrote: "Good luck Leonie :)"

Thanks, Brenda!

Hi everyone, I can't believe I haven't joined before! I read AWW all the time. I have joined up :)

Wonderful Suzanne! Don't forget to create your own thread to keep track of your reads this year :)

End of year countdown
http://australianwomenwriters.com/201...

Thanks Ace :)

Brenda wrote: "Thanks Ace :)"

You're welcome, it came up on my Facebook feed!

I actually received the email, but hadn't opened it yet! lol