Writing Workshop - Story in Six Weeks with Mary Anne Butler

Develop a story in six weeks. Hone writing craft. Suitable for all genres. This engaging online workshop series with award-winning author Mary…

The Island of Last Things review: Emma Sloley's book is about the last zoo in the world

The Island of Last Things asks what you would be prepared to risk for a better world.

A Catalogue of Love review: Erin Hortle's novel is a coming-of-age story set in Tasmania

A Catalogue of Love invites readers to think about the social and biological burdens on women.

U Want it Darker review: Murray Middleton's quietly heroic stories

Murray Middleton’s ‘artists in despair’ are not simply failures in U Want it Darker.

Queensland Literary Awards announces delayed shortlist after judges' mass resignation in May

The Queensland Literary Awards have announced their 2025 shortlist. A delay was caused by a mass resignation of judges, protesting…

Tenderfoot review: Toni Jordan's engrossing page-turning saga

Tenderfoot is told from the point of view of 12-year-old Andie Tanner as remembered by her very much older self.

Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 8-14 September 2025

Callout for nature photography, NGV Top Arts, funding open for WA and Gold Coast artists plus more opportunities.

Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing)

Meanjin: bean counting misses the intangible value of reading and imagining

The closure of Australia's second oldest literary journal Meanjin contradicts Melbourne's stance as a UNESCO City of Literature.

Meanjin, Australia's second oldest literary journal, to close

The last edition of Meanjin will be published in December, 'the board having found it no longer viable to produce…