Writing and Publishing
Opportunities and awards
Prize entries open for 2024, design winners announced and Brisbane honours local ballet legend, plus more!
Book review: Cast Mates, Sam Twyford-Moore
An examination of the relationship between Hollywood and the Australian film industry, via actors who have straddled them both.
Book review: But the Girl, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
This delightful debut is a literary coming-of-age story.
Book review: Me, Her, Us, Yen-Rong Wong
A bristling collection about race, sex, familial expectation and identity from a writer with lived experience.
A slower, less transactional biennial for Adelaide
Prefacing the human condition, and the healing aspect of intimate spaces, the next edition of the Adelaide Biennial of Australia…
Book review: Body Friend, Katherine Brabon
A tenderly written exploration of the body through the lens of living with chronic illness.
Opportunities and awards
Furniture Design Award launches open call, plus winners of small sculpture and portrait prizes, and literary shortlists.
Accessible writing is for everyone
Accessible writing can be divided into two categories: plain language and Easy Read.
Book review: Chinese Fish, Grace Yee
A multi-voiced collection of poetry that canvasses a family's experiences of racism in New Zealand from the 1960s to the…
Second book syndrome
Pushing through with the writing and publication of a second book can be fraught. How can you navigate some of…