{"id":5412,"date":"2023-02-06T15:27:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T05:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2023-02-06T15:27:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T05:27:58","slug":"amy-mcquire-winner-2022-hilary-mcphee-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2023\/02\/06\/amy-mcquire-winner-2022-hilary-mcphee-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy McQuire: Winner 2022 Hilary McPhee Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We do not know how many Aboriginal women have gone \u2018missing\u2019 in this country. The archives are filled with the \u2018missing\u2019: the Aboriginal women who are no longer here to speak; the Aboriginal women who do not have names; the Aboriginal women who do not have graves or places where their families can remember them. There is a comfort that comes with the word \u2018missing\u2019, because to be \u2018missing\u2019 implies that perhaps they have left on their own accord; that there are no perpetrators or violence enacted against them\u2026”<\/em><\/p>\n

Meanjin<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is proud to announce Amy McQuire<\/strong> as winner of the 2022 Hilary McPhee Award for her essay \u2018The Act of Disappearing: On the silences that shroud the disappearances of Aboriginal women and girls<\/a>‘, published in\u00a0Meanjin<\/em>\u00a081.4 Summer 2022.<\/p>\n

Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander writer and journalist. She is a postdoctoral Indigenous fellow at the\u00a0Queensland University of Technology, and recently submitted her PhD in media representations of violence against Aboriginal women at the University of Queensland. She is the co-host of the investigative podcast Curtain the Podcast, and has been working in Aboriginal and independent media over the past 16 years. She has written for\u00a0New Matilda<\/em>,\u00a0BuzzFeed<\/em>,\u00a0Meanjin<\/em>,\u00a0Griffith<\/em>\u00a0Review<\/em>,\u00a0Saturday Paper<\/em>,\u00a0Vogue<\/em>,\u00a0Marie Claire<\/em>, the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0among others. Her first book\u00a0Black Witness<\/em>\u00a0is due to be published by UQP in the near future.<\/p>\n

\u2018Thank you so much to\u00a0Meanjin<\/em>\u00a0not only for this award but also for giving me the space to write this essay on how this country is actively disappearing Aboriginal women,\u2019 said Amy McQuire. \u2018It is very rare to find a space to write long form journalism on issues that have been continually silenced, and to tell stories our way. So I feel very honoured to not only have a publication that supports this work, but sees its value.\u2019<\/p>\n

Presented since 2016, the Hilary McPhee Award recognises brave essay writing that makes a fearless contribution to the national debate. Eligible essays are shortlisted from those published in\u00a0Meanjin<\/em>\u00a0each calendar year.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Hilary McPhee Award is valued at $3,500.<\/p>\n

The Award is drawn from a perpetual fund donated by Peter McPhee AM FASSA FAHA\u2014Professor Emeritus of the University of Melbourne, inaugural Provost, and winner of the Centenary Medal for services to education\u2014and is named in honour of his sister.<\/p>\n

Hilary McPhee AO is a writer and editor, founding director of McPhee Gribble Publishers, former Chair of the Australia Council, inaugural Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and a former Guest Editor of\u00a0Meanjin<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Amy McQuire\u2019s devastating essay throws a piercing light on the silences that befall Indigenous women who \u201cgo missing\u201d, disappear, fall through the cracks of police inaction and victim-blaming,\u2019 said Hilary McPhee.<\/p>\n

\u2018I was so moved by Amy\u2019s essay,\u2019 said Esther Anatolitis, Editor of\u00a0Meanjin<\/em>. \u2018Commissioned by Jonathan Green and published in his final edition, \u201cThe Act of Disappearing<\/a>\u201d is a rigorous and sensitive essay that tells an urgent story Australia needs to hear. Enormous thanks to Hilary and Peter for this invaluable fund, and to the University of Melbourne as its custodians.\u2019<\/p>\n

Meanjin<\/em>\u00a0is where Australia\u2019s literary culture sets out its fiercest ambitions. Quarterly in print and continuously online, each year\u00a0Meanjin<\/em>\u00a0publishes new work by hundreds of Australian writers in all genres and forms.<\/p>\n

Meanjin<\/em>\u00a0will announce the next iteration of the Hilary McPhee Award in coming months. Future awards will be presented each December at the launch of the\u00a0Meanjin<\/em>\u00a0Summer edition.<\/p>\n

(Image of Amy supplied by QUT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We do not know how many Aboriginal women have gone \u2018missing\u2019 in this country. The archives are filled with the \u2018missing\u2019: the Aboriginal women who are no longer here to speak; the Aboriginal women who do not have names; the Aboriginal women who do not have graves or places where their families can remember them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4341,"featured_media":5413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15381],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-awards-2"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}