Writing and Publishing
Opportunities and awards
Textile Awards call for entries, funding for live music in NSW, plus winners of new JUNCTURE Art Prize and 2024…
Book review: Loving My Lying, Dying, Cheating Husband, Kerstin Pilz
'Till death do us part' is put to the test in this heartbreaking memoir.
Book review: Model Minority Gone Rogue, Qin QinÂ
A memoir that tracks what happens when a formerly dutiful child decides to pursue her own path.
This week's arts news and trending topics
We break it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.
Look, look, a cat in a book! (part one)
Want to read some books with feline characters in there? Here are 10 purrfect choices.
Is poetry really 'the tyrannical discipline'?
This is how Sylvia Plath described the art form, but three contemporary poets have very different views.
Praiseworthy indeed: Alexis Wright wins Stella Prize 2024
The celebrated Waanyi author is now a two-time winner of the Stella Prize.
Book review: No Church in the Wild, Murray Middleton
A complex and confronting story about migrant youth from the towers of Melbourne's inner west, their teachers and the local…
Book review: The Story Thief, Kyra Geddes
A feminist perspective on Henry Lawson's 'The Drover’s Wife'.
Opportunities and awards
Fifty Squared Art Prize open for entries, plus winner of Calibre Essay Prize and finalists of wearable art, and more!