Writing and Publishing

Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 1-7 September 2025
Drawing prize open for entries, grants available for festival ideas that celebrate older people’s creativity and more opportunities.

The Wheeler Centre
Melissa Leong: Guts
Win 2 tickets to see former judge of MasterChef Australia, Melissa Leong in conversation from The Wheeler Centre!

100 Story Building
Magic Time Dinosaurs: Spring School Holiday Program 2025
Step through a portal and discover what happens when dinosaurs land at your school! Dream, design, and create stories, poems,…

100 Story Building
Library of Unwritten Futures: Spring Holiday Program 2025
Over two magical days, storytellers will explore, invent, and create their own worlds through writing, drawing, and creative storytelling.

The Wolf Who Cried Boy review: Mark Mupotsa-Russell’s heart-wrenching second novel
A six-year-old child’s reality blurs with fantasy in The Wolf Who Cried Boy.

The 7-ON playwrights: how to sustain a collective for 20 years
Members of playwrights collective 7-ON discuss their new anthology, and how they’ve operated successfully for two decades to date.

Walking Sydney: how Belinda Castles found her footing in the Harbour City
In Walking Sydney, Castles takes walks with some of Australia's biggest writers in order to see the city anew.

Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 25-31 August 2025
ArtsHub's new Creative Journalism Fellowship, Create SA grants, environmental artist residency, First Nations Arts Leadership and more opportunities.

The Farm review: Jessica Mansour-Nahra’s page-turning gothic thriller
Jessica Mansour-Nahra's The Farm poses troubling questions about the cycle of domestic violence, motherhood, and female bodily autonomy.

5 best new books to read in September 2025
Discover the 5 best new books to read in September 2025 with this guide, as chosen by ArtsHub staff.