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Author Min Jin Lee. Photo: Hae Ran.
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Adelaide Writers' Week looks to a new chapter, announces author Min Jin Lee for 2027 festival

The Pachinko author will discuss her new novel at Adelaide Writers' Week, as the festival looks to rebuild trust after…

Elizabeth Ann Macgregor. Photo: Supplied.
Features

'We were right in the firing line': an extract from Elizabeth Ann Macgregor's The Power of the Real

In this extract from her forthcoming memoir The Power of the Real, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor looks back on a critical…

The winners of the 2026 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Photo: Rohan Thomson.
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2026 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards celebrate six standout Australian books

The nation's richest annual literary prize offers a snapshot of Australian literature now.

The longlisted books for the 2026 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Image: Supplied.
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15 novels longlisted for one of Australasia’s richest literary awards

The 2026 ARA Historical Novel Prize longlist spans millennia, continents and untold histories, with $155,000 up for grabs.

Anna Woods, author of LIT. Photo: LJS Studios.

Anna Woods' debut novel LIT gives architects the thriller treatment

Anna Woods’ Kiwi thriller revolves around ill-gotten gains and three architects trapped in an eternal triangle.

Artist Kaylene Whiskey is nominated for the artist monograph The Art of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe in Love?, co-authored with Natalie King and Iwantja Arts. Photo: Rhett Hammerton.
Industry News

2026 NT Book Awards shortlist celebrates the breadth of Top End talent

This year's shortlist for the NT Book Awards ranges from poetry and family history to Indigenous-language picture books and even…

Liane Moriarty, author of Big Little Lies and Big Little Truths. Photo: Über Photography.
Interviews

Liane Moriarty returns to Big Little Lies: ‘Nobody can change my book’

More than a decade after Big Little Lies took the world by storm, the maestro of mystery Liane Moriarty returns…

Tamara Zimet is the incoming Artistic Director of Sydney Writers' Festival. Photo: Laura Meek.
Industry News

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

This week, the Sydney Writers' Festival appoints its new Artistic Director.

darcy green after the siren book adaptation
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After the Siren: Australian queer AFL romance novel has been optioned for the screen

Darcy Green's After the Siren is a sports romance novel about players from a fictional Brunswick AFL team.

Tom McIlroy, author of the non-fiction book Blue Poles, is among the finalists of the 2026 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Photo: Supplied.
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Arborescence to Blue Poles: all the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards finalists

The finalists for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards have now been announced.

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