Writing and Publishing
Vivid Ideas unites creative minds
The Vivid Ideas line-up this year features DJ and musician Flume alongside fashion designer Karen Walker.
Photography Centre quits Queensland for LA
The Queensland Centre for Photography shuts its doors this week in the wake of funding cuts but it intends to…
Alexis Wright: The Swan Book
Wright knowingly slips between different registers in a pointed series of allegations that nobody can deny or ignore.
Head On Photo Festival celebrates five-year milestone
Head On, Australia’s largest photography festival, is back for a fifth installment in 2014.
We fight the poetic illiteracy
Maxine Beneba Clarke speaks about The Emerging Writers' Festival and her new short story collection.
4000 blue butterflies to swarm a street near you
A swarm of 4000 handcrafted magnetic butterflies will travel across the globe in an ambitious street art project that will…
How to win a writing prize
Former winners and honorees of the Monash Prize share their tips on entering a literary competition.
Clare Wright: The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
Wright dispels the myth of the Victorian goldfields as an exclusively masculine domain through the re-telling of the gold rush.
Celebrating the act of giving
A woman’s life of philanthropy continues to bestow help and inspiration for the arts
Why Shakespeare still matters
To celebrate Shakespeare's 450th birthday, Australia's leading exponent asks why actors and audiences still love the Bard.