Writing and Publishing

Opportunities and awards
Entries open for photographic and writer's awards, new commissions, First Nations recording grants, and more!

Appalling lack of King's Birthday Honours for the arts
Where are the artists? ArtsHub takes a look at this year's King's List Honours to gauge how the arts were…

5 pitching tips for freelance writers
How do you pitch your story ideas in the most efficient way possible and with the greatest chance of success?

This week's arts news and trending topics
We break it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.

Book review: Suddenly Single at Sixty, Jo Peck
A splendid and heartfelt response to the oldest clichĂ© in the book – the husband who leaves the writer for…

Book review: Depth of Field, Kirsty Iltners
A well told story that tackles the fallout from the fallibility of memory.

Book review: Hurdy Gurdy, Jenny Ackland
A dystopian Australia sees women's bodies policed and subjugated.

Opportunities and awards
Creative Australia calling for peer assessors, plus winners of emerging musicians fellowships and more!

Book review: Nameless, Amanda Creely
War and its voiceless victims are the harrowing topics of this novel.

Book review: Chloé, Katrina Kell
A fictionalised exposé of the woman who modelled for the famous painting that hangs in Melbourne's Young and Jackson Hotel.