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2026 NT Writers Festival

The NT Writers Festival (NTWF) returns to Garramilla/Darwin 28 – 31 May 2026. NTWF is a four-day festival that brings…

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Writing NSW

Online: Finishing That Draft: A Novel Writing Course with JP Pomare

This intensive two-week online course is designed to help take you from the ideation stage to completion of a strong…

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Writing NSW

Online: Writing from the Sentence Up with Emily Bitto

This online writing course with Emily Bitto will re-focus your writing on the level of the sentence, providing practical ways…

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Writing NSW

Adventures Among Essays with Anwen Crawford

In this workshop with Anwen Crawford you will consider different aspects of essay writing, including how and where to look…

A profile of a woman with short silver hair, Lynette Ramsay Silver, author of Sister Bullwinkel.
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Sister Bullwinkel review: a biography by Lynette Ramsay Silver tackles the truth after 80 years

Lynette Ramsay Silver’s account about Sister Bullwinkel, Australia's wartime nurse, makes for grim reading, but we shouldn’t look away.

A promotional photograph of the late Noel Tovey AM from the 2014 season of 'Little Black Bastard', presented by ILBIJERRI and Arts House. The photo shows an elder but still vigorous Aboriginal man with grey hair; he poses regally and is looking gravely down at the camera.
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Vale Uncle Noel Tovey AM: Indigenous champion of gay rights

Tovey is remembered for his spirit, courage and creativity, and as a courageous elder with a sly wit.

two panels: on the left against a black background, a middle aged woman with short blonde hair, black turtleneck and denim jacket smiles at the camera. She has her hand in her pocket. on the right a picture of Stella Miles Franklin on a purple background and the title INCONVENIENT WOMEN by Jacqueline Kent
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Inconvenient Women review – Australian literary cage-rattlers and trailblazers

From the suffragists to the feminist writers of the 1970s, this book navigates both their inconsistencies and their courage when…

Audience listening to presentation. Live & Local. Sydney Writers' Festival.
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Live & Local returns in Sydney Writers' Festival 2025

Highlights of the 28th edition of the Live & Local program.

On the top panel is Megan Brown who has short white hair and is wearing glasses. Below her in another panel is Lucy Sussex, who has blonde hair and is wearing a brown woollen hat. On the right is the cover of their book 'Outrageous Fortune' that features a blue and white illustration of a woman in period dress. There are two knives held aloft beside her.
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Book review: Outrageous Fortunes, Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex

An unearthing of the life and times of Mary Fortune, who wrote the first book of detective stories published in…

Two black and white panels. On the left a head and shoulders of an older man (Al Pacino) with black hair brushed back, goatee and moustached, in a black shirt. On the right the book cover of a younger clean shaven Al Pacino holding his hand across his forehead and wearing a dark jumper, and the words Al Pacino in gold and Sonny Boy in white.
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Book review: Sonny Boy, Al Pacino

The Oscar-winning actor looks back on his life and career to reveal how he left the Bronx to hit the…

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