Writing and Publishing

Georges River Council
Writing with Objects
Let objects guide your stories in this creative writing workshop with our current artist in residence, Johanna Ellersdorfer.

20 pub quiz literary questions – the children's and young adults' literature version
So you tried the general literary quiz and the OzLit variation, here now is one devoted to children's and YA…

AI copyright crisis: Australian writers push back against AI training deals
AI copyright tensions escalate as authors challenge publishing contracts that allow their work to train artificial intelligence models.

Every story finds its audience – what we can learn from The Handmaid's Tale
What the final season of the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel teaches us about storytelling, voice and the power…

Opportunities and awards
Enlighten Festival callout, SA Arts Leadership Program open, plus finalists across the 2025 National Biography Award, Bowness Photography Prize and…

Inconvenient Women review – Australian literary cage-rattlers and trailblazers
From the suffragists to the feminist writers of the 1970s, this book navigates both their inconsistencies and their courage when…

Hill of Content: human chain helps 103-year-old Melbourne bookshop relocate
Around 300 people showed up at Hill of Content today, forming a human chain to help move 17,000 books.

Bakers Lane Books launches with $10,000 prize to support emerging women writers
A new kid on the block promises to amply Australian women's voices.

Poetry Month returns with nationwide coverage
Red Room's annual celebration returns to showcase the breadth of Australian poetry.

Curl up with these new art books this winter
15 books that beckon you to stay in … even on a sunny winter’s day.