Jesse has won awards for her fiction and non-fiction writing in Australia and the USA.
The Raven’s
Heart (HarperCollins
Australia 2011, Bywater Books 2012)
Winner: 2013 Benjamin
Franklin Award for Historical Fiction (USA)
Winner: 2013 Golden Crown
Award (USA)
Bronze medal: 2013 Independent
Publisher Book Awards Historical Fiction (USA)
Finalist: 2013 Lambda
Foundation Literary Award (USA)
Finalist: F013 ForeWord Book
of the Year (USA)
Winner: Varuna HarperCollins Manuscript Development Award 2011
(Australia)
Chasing the
Light (HarperCollins Australia 2013)
Winner: 2011/12 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship
After the
Party (Hardie
Grant Books 2005)
Australian
Book Review list of all time favourite Australian novels (2010).
Other Awards
Winner: 2012 Guy Morrison Prize for Literary
Journalism (for the essay ‘The first woman and the last dog in
Antarctica’)
Winner: 2009 New Mardi Gras Short Story Award
‘From her glorious
opening paragraph, which immediately captivated me, Jesse Blackadder has
produced a spirited, beautifully written and structured story, bringing to
light the history of the first women to reach Antarctica.’
- Guy Morrison Prize
judge, journalist Nikki Barrowclough.