Jess Hill (writer)

Jess Hill is an Australian investigative journalist.[1] In 2020, she won the Stella Prize for her non-fiction work See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse.[2][3]

This article is about the Australian journalist. For the American athlete, see Jess Hill.

Biography

Hill started her journalism career as a producer for ABC Radio National. In 2011, she relocated to Cairo, Egypt, to become Middle East correspondent for The Global Mail.[4] She then moved into investigative journalism, working for ABC's Background Briefing programme. In 2014 she began writing about domestic violence.[5]

Her book, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse, was published in 2019 and won the 2020 Stella Prize for Australian women's writing. In 2019, it was announced that Hill would present a three-part television documentary based on the book, which would be screened on SBS (Special Broadcasting Service) in 2020.[6]

In 2020, Hill is the inaugural journalist-in-residence at the University of Technology Sydney.[7]

Awards and recognition

In 2015, Hill received three Our Watch Awards for her reporting on domestic violence — the Our Watch Gold Award, the Best Series or Special Award (for her series on family violence, broadcast on ABC Radio National) and the Best Longform Award (for Home Truths: The costs and causes of domestic violence, published in The Monthly).[8]

In 2016, Hill received two Walkley Awards — one for Women's Leadership in Media, and one for a piece of feature writing on the Family Court of Australia, Suffer the Children: Trouble in the Family Court.[4] This piece of writing also earnt Hill an Amnesty International Australia Media Award.[9]

In addition to winning the Stella Prize, See What You Made Me Do was a finalist for both the 2019 Walkley Book Award and 2019 Australian Human Rights Commission Media Award, and shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-fiction.[10] It was also shortlisted for the 2020 Davitt Award for best nonfiction crime book.[11]

References
  1. Bookshelf, ABC Arts Kate Evans for RN's The (2020-04-14). "Winner of $50,000 writing prize dismantles 'the lazy old lies we associate with domestic abuse'". ABC News. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  2. Convery, Stephanie (2020-04-14). "Jess Hill wins $50,000 Stella prize for See What You Made Me Do, book investigating domestic violence". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  3. Steger, Jason (2020-04-14). "Jess Hill wins the Stella Prize for examination of domestic abuse". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  4. "Jess Hill". The Walkley Foundation. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  5. "Jess Hill". Black Inc. 2018-12-14. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  6. "See What You Made Me Do documentary series on SBS TV". Black Inc. 2019-11-20. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  7. "UTS announces inaugural journalist-in-residence program". University of Technology Sydney. 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  8. "Our Watch Award 2015 winners announced". www.ourwatch.org.au. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  9. "Winners of the 2016 Amnesty International Australia Media Awards". Amnesty International Australia. 2016-11-21. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  10. "See What You Made Me Do wins 2020 Stella Prize". Black Inc. 2020-04-14. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  11. "Davitt Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
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