Writing and Publishing
Opportunities and Awards Wrap: New Varuna award and Kat Muscat fellowship winner
2021 Fogarty Literary Award now open, Kat Muscat Fellowship recipient announced, Varuna launches new fellowship program for writers with disability,…
Australian poetry month to honour our best
To be held in August every year, a new month-long national celebration of Australian poets has been created by Red…
The year that was: COVID and the arts a year on from lockdown
From digital pivots, to government funding (or lack there of), to conversations and resilience – we take a look at…
Book Review: Pushing Back by John Kinsella
Kinsella takes his readers off the edge of the map.
Ask the Mentor: I've forgotten how to network in real life
Online conferences were great for shy people, but now in-person events are back. Brush up on your social skills and…
Why CEOs need to improvise in the boardroom
Boardroom etiquette is typically formal. Is that a good thing? A panel of improv-theatre makers and CEOs suggest otherwise, in…
Art is never finished, only abandoned
Can we ever call a work finished? Leonardo Da Vinci said no; rather, we just abandon. We speak with artists…
Should you care whether you are emerging or not?
Is the emerging artist label only useful for finding grants and opportunities, or can creative practitioners benefit from thinking about…
Eroding our culture: how the Australian arts have been slowly undermined
How have the arts lost their importance? Looking back over some of Currency House’s 62 previous Platform Papers, the outgoing…
8 ways managers can use fiction to prepare for an uncertain reality
It’s a brave new business world, but turning to novelists can help managers explore possible future scenarios.