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Sydney Fringe Festival: bigger and bolder than ever in 2025
This year's Sydney Fringe Festival is embracing more local and international talent than ever and a decentralised model of place.

Siang Lu, Lauren Foley, Alan Fyfe: when book rejection leads to publishing success
Six Australian authors, including Katrina Cosgrove and Scarlett Harris, open up about their slow path to publication.

Sydney Writers' Festival partners with State Library of NSW for new literary hub
Sydney Writers' Festival and the State Library of NSW have partnered on an initiative allowing year-round storytelling.

Miles Franklin winner 2025: Siang Lu, Ghost Cities
The Miles Franklin winner, Ghost Cities, is a beguiling, metafictional novel set in a film set. But who's directing who?

20 pub quiz literary questions – the children's and young adults' literature version
So you tried the general literary quiz and the OzLit variation, here now is one devoted to children's and YA…

Melbourne premiere of American Psycho the Musical – prepare to be blood spattered!
The killer banker returns with 'real' blood on stage ... and songs.

Bakers Lane Books launches with $10,000 prize to support emerging women writers
A new kid on the block promises to amply Australian women's voices.

Poetry Month returns with nationwide coverage
Red Room's annual celebration returns to showcase the breadth of Australian poetry.

Book review: The Haunting of Mr & Mrs Stevenson, Belinda Lyons-Lee
Who or what inspired the writing of Stevenson's 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'?

Mushroom Murder Trial: the TV series, documentary, panel discussion and books
In the fallout of Erin Patterson's conviction, there's no shortage of coverage in the offing.