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So You Want My Arts Job: Mona Curator
Talent, hard work, patience, and humility are just some of the traits you need to work as a curator at…

10 career hacks from famous artists
From hoarding your privacy, to embracing your inner-child and ensuring you make durable art, some of our greatest contemporary artists…

How to cultivate patience, proactivity and perseverance in the arts
Keeping going is a challenge in the arts so Madeleine Dore has 11 ways to build up your career longevity…

15 challenging ideas to boost your career in the art world
Gallery owner Michael Reid OAM has become an icon in the international visual arts scene so his advice on making…

What I do as a sensitivity reader
Whether I’m a sensitivity reader, a dramaturge, or a plain old editor, I’m looking at how your text might be…

Meet the director of Tasmania’s newest literary festival
LJM Owen is a novelist, archaeologist, and the director of Terror Australis, a crime readers and writers festival in Tasmania.

Worrying about writing as a person of colour
Playwright Jean Tong on her fears that ‘diversity’ is ghettoising the artistic work of people of colour.

Why you should use a sensitivity reader
Employing a sensitivity reader is as much a matter of writing craft as it is of ethics.

How to nail collaborative writing
Making each other laugh: romcom co-authors Mel Campbell and Anthony Morris open up about writing their latest novel. They have…

So you want my arts job: Fight Director
Nigel Poulton is an award-winning, internationally renowned fight director, weapon and movement specialist, stunt performer and actor. He shares some…