Writing and Publishing

Author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dies
Booker Prize winner Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, winner of two Academy Awards for her screenplays of EM Forster’s novels, died last…

Possum cloaks reconnecting culture
A new exhibition by art and social photographer Sarah Rhodes turns a lens to an almost forgotten Indigenous cultural and…

Top music honour for national treasure Kev Carmody
Queensland singer-songwriter Kev Carmody has won the $60,000 Australia Council Don Banks Music Award.

Hot trends: Buddhas, Bacon, Barbara Cartland
Cashed-up buyers are creating a heady market for some lesser known genres including Chinese porcelain, post-war painting and even kitsch.

Teachers dissatisfied with Creative Australia
The Federal Government has some homework to do before the education sector embraces Creative Australia.

EWF invites you into The Discomfort Zone
The annual celebration of our country’s freshest writers, poets, bloggers, journos, Tweeters and speakers.

Arts leaders protest missing freedoms in OzCo Act
Arts industry leaders say the new Australia Council Act fails to protect freedom of expression and leaves key cultural sectors…

Schools turn up to Turner’s Studio in SA
The Art Gallery of South Australia’s new dedicated learning space opens with Turner’s Studio.

Dendy supports students in NIDA Week
NIDA’s Student Bursary program clips 50 cents from every Dendy ticket sold from April 18 – 24.

Free web workshops for arts educators
Flying Arts puts arts education web workshops free to air.