Biography
NT Writers Centre
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
Live & Local returns in Sydney Writers' Festival 2025
Highlights of the 28th edition of the Live & Local program.
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…
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…