Whilst I slog away processing the full stats for the history of the Aurealis Awards, here’s some stats for the current shortlists. I think these will be interesting to compare against the average, when I have that. Being a creative publishing phd, I’m also very interested in publisher statistics. I’m in the process of thinking through performance indicators for various measurements of “success” and here I am playing around with some of the elements of those (how do you measure how successful you have been at executing what you set out to do? – Big thesis-ey question)
Here is the breakdown of shortlisted authors, editors and artists by gender:
And this one is a breakdown of the lists by the publisher size:
I’m also interested in looking at trends and changes in the publishing industry so the following graphs look at which publishers have what proportion of the shortlists – divided roughly into big publishers and indie; and also number of titles per publisher shortlisted.
ETA one final plot, of the women shortlisted for the Aurealis Award in 2012, these were their publishers:
Tags: aurealis awards, awards breakdown by gender, gender parity, phd
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