Writing and Publishing
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…
How do you define an ‘emerging’ writer?
The phrase emerging is supposed to help identify early-career writers in need of support, but too often it is categorised…
5 tips for pitching to the media
Rather than taking a blanket approach, making each of your pitches count results in a better chance at media coverage.
Making the headlines across this week's arts news
What's on, what's in the headlines, and the latest program releases – to put you ahead of the game this…