Writing and Publishing
Book review: The Diplomat, Chris Womersley
A powerful and gripping novel of agony and the despair of regret
How portfolio careers can lead to happiness
Screenwriter, cartoonist and illustrator Megan Herbert used to be torn between artforms, but now embraces her portfolio career.
The 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: Enclave, Claire G. Coleman
A dystopian future that bears too scary a resemblance to certain contemporary realities.
Opportunities and awards
National Arts and Disability Awards open for nominations, research fellowships on offer plus winners of 2022 Fifty Squared Art Prize…
Book review: Big Beautiful Female Theory, Eloise Grills
Grills critiques the fetishisation of aesthetic counterpoints by highlighting the ‘to-be-looked-at-ness’ of her own personal journey.
10 Australian literary scandals
The Australian book world has long been enlivened with scams and misdemeanours.
A reckoning with Australia’s colonial past
The latest edition of Grififth Review 76: Acts of Reckoning has been curated by the journal’s first contributing editor, Teela…
Book review: Clean, Scott-Patrick Mitchell
A poetry collection that tracks the hard road from addiction to recovery.
So You Want My Arts Job: Audio Book Producer
How do you get to read and translate other people's words into audiobooks? Veteran producer Sarah Bacallar tells us about…