Writing and Publishing
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.
Hannah Kent: Burial Rites
Kent succeeds in offering up a fascinating, rich character and leaves it up to the reader to decide how to…
NSW Arts a reshuffle casualty
The new Premier of NSW, Mike Baird, has announced a Cabinet reshuffle, and the Arts Ministry was among the changes.
Anna Krien: Night Games - Sex, Power and Sport
The author documents a fascinating, protected and sometimes horrifying subculture that has not changed with the times.