Fiction
New regional festival celebrates queer writers
With events across Victoria in centres such as Shepparton, Traralgon, Warrnambool and Geelong, Q-Lit aims to connect the queer community…
Book Review: Sweeney and the Bicycles, Philip Salom
This psychologically perceptive novel Illuminates states of stagnation and change in the context of a traumatic past.
Book review: Forty Nights, Pirooz Jafari
A multilayered, multi-voice tale of dispossession and dislocation.
Book review: Scavengers, Robert Hood
A novel that stitches crime and modern monsters together with a classic horror story at its heart.
Book review: The Other Olivia, Tamara M Bailey
A tightly constructed sci-fi of international proportions, influenced by the Canadian series Orphan Black and The Matrix but set in…
Winners of 2022 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards announced
Writers across six categories took home $80,000 each, with a focus on stories of war.
Book review: The Furphy Anthology 2022
The winning, shortlisted and commended stories from the Furphy Literary Award gathered in a collection.
Book review: Her Death Was Also Water, Allen C Jones
This end-of-the-world novel is more than just an adventure story.
Is a writing career a viable option in Australia?
Funding cuts and the need for a living wage for writers figure strongly in the discussion about the future of…
Book review: Clarke, Holly Throsby
A work of crime fiction that spends as much time developing its characters as it does with progressing the plot.