Writing and Publishing
This week's arts news you may have missed
What's on, what's in the headlines, and the latest program releases – to put you ahead of the game this…
Does the arts sector need more creative therapists?
More and more evidence points to the therapeutic effects of art and music, but can their makers also benefit?
Book review: Ten Steps to Nanette, Hannah Gadsby
A comic's hard-won journey is paved with doubt, misogyny and mental health issues.
Book review: Abracadabra by Robert Dessaix
This book is Robert Dessaix: humorous, insightful, erudite and challenging
Book review: Australia in 50 Plays, Julian Meyrick
A wide survey of the contribution of theatre to our national sense of identity.
Opportunities and awards
Call outs for artists with lived experience of mental illness plus winners of the 2022 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize…
Book review: The Eulogy, Jackie Bailey
An autofiction debut that eulogises family and loss with eloquence.
Book review: What Fear Was, Ben Walter
A debut collection of stories surveys contemporary environmental and climate terrain.
Arts news you may have missed, this week
What's on, what's in the headlines, and the latest program releases – to put you ahead of the game this…
Book review: The Jaguar, Sarah Holland-Batt
An award-winning poet illuminates the dying light of her father's years.