Writing and Publishing
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The Creative Leadership program supporting transformative change
Wesley Enoch AM says leadership is about diversity, morals, shaking things up and always being open to learning.
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Crossing boundaries and building bridges at Sydney Writers’ Festival 2024
The annual event returns looking to celebrate community and take its audience away from their everyday lives.
![Rebecca F Kuang speaking at All About Women 2024, Sydney Opera House. Photo: Jaimi Joy. Kuang is wearing a black sleeveless dress with floral patterns with her hands raised in the middle of explaining something. She has black tied-up hair and a black fringe. On the left is the cover of ‘Yellowface’, with two slanted almond eyes on a bright yellow background.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_4058.png?w=310)
Yellowface: insights from Rebecca F Kuang
Rebecca F Kuang’s debut literary fiction, ‘Yellowface’ has taken the publishing world by storm. She revealed more about the book's…
![Appreciation. On the left is an author headshot of a young man with a closely shaved beard and moustache and a black round neck top. On the right is an illustration of a person in black holding a painter's palette, against a blue (they are standing in water) and orange backdrop with their head exploding in flames.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/appre.jpg?w=310)
Book review: Appreciation, Liam Pieper
A confusing and, at times, ill-paced romp.
![Lead Us Not. Image on left is a book cover in beige of a bare arm reaching round a wall. On the right is a head shot of a young smiling woman with shoulder length hair and blue eyes.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/lead-us.jpg?w=310)
Book review: Lead Us Not, Abbey Lay
What happens when a friend ghosts you and you have no idea why?
![Work from the series 'Cocoon' by Terence Lin, selected for the MAPh 'TOPShots 2024' exhibition. Image: Supplied. A digitally manipulated photographic work featuring a close lineup of oval portraits of Asian youths smiling with their eyes closed and wearing red bow ties with a white shirt. The portraits populate a red background.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Terence-Lin-2-e1710211152643.jpg?w=310)
Opportunities and awards
Australia's biggest open studios event calls for registrations, plus portraits and landscapes taking out wins and Tasmanian Theatre Awards announced.
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This week's arts news and trending topics
We break it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.
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Move over Millennials, it's time for older women writers to shine
Are the works of older women writers writing about their lives a new Australian publishing trend?
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Opportunities and awards
Prime Minister's Literary Awards open for entries, plus Paris 2024 Olympics artwork revealed, finalists of inaugural play competition for seniors,…
![Ghost Poetry. On the left is a book cover with a close-up of a horse's face. On the right is an author image of a young man in a field, with his hands in his pockets and looking off to the right.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/sw.jpg?w=310)
Book Review: Ghost Poetry, Robbie Coburn
A poetry collection that reflects deeply on trauma, loss and hope.