Writing and Publishing
Best new books September 2025
Discover the best new books to read in September with this guide.
Bendigo Writers Festival: when risk management becomes censorship
The unfortunate situation at Bendigo Writers Festival over the weekend is yet another example of cultural leadership failure.
Arborescence review: Rhett Davis' novel takes 'tree change' to a new level
Arborescence is speculative fiction at its best: an end-of-world story that offers green leaves of hope.
Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 18-24 August 2025
New nature writing prize, $10,000 for emerging singer-songwriters, mural commission, WA grant funding and more opportunities.
Messy With The Pen
Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Manes, meltdowns and masculinity collide in the World Premiere of this unhinged equestrian brom-com road trip coming to fortyfivedownstairs.
Bendigo Writers Festival has questions to answer over code of conduct
At a time when journalists are being permanently silenced by Israel’s genocidal forces, it is incomprehensible that a writers’ festival…
Bendigo Writers Festival 2025: why we cancelled our panel
33 writers have cancelled their appearances at Bendigo Writers Festival in protest over a last-minute request to sign a ‘self-censoring’…
Queensland Writers Centre
Queensland Poetry Awards
Queensland’s renowned suite of poetry awards support, recognise and celebrate emerging and established poets.
Writers Victoria
Workshop and Online Feedback Clinic: Writing Ecologies
Session 1 | Online | 30 August In the first online 3-hour session you will analyse different approaches to writing environmental…
Wenona Byrne: 5 questions for Writing Australia's new director
Wenona Byrne discusses some of the ins and outs of her new position as Director of Writing Australia.