Writing and Publishing
![Handwriting. Typing. Image is a glass jar against a black background, filled with a variety of pens and pencils.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/kelly-sikkema-LFGAatMUDvc-unsplash-11-e1715822515746.jpg?w=310)
New research shows handwriting as important as typing for children
A hybrid of digital skills and traditional pen(cil) and paper is recommended for optimal learning.
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100 Story Building has a new address in Melbourne's west
A new home in Melbourne's west for a creative writing centre for the young.
![Small Press Network. Image is a cash register in a bookshop.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/radek-homola-nPQHFyVfkXY-unsplash-e1715826420636.jpg?w=310)
Small Press Network (SPN) pauses operations
The Small Press Network is temporarily halting operations in order to reassess its funding models and to seek community support.
![Venus Without Furs. On the left a shot of the author, who is a middle aged white woman with short brushed back grey hair. She has glasses on her head, a green and black dress and is standing in front of a microphone reading from a book. On the right is a book cover showing an artistic nude looking to the right and her mirror double looking to the left.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/gabby.jpg?w=310)
Book review: Venus Without Furs, Gabrielle Everall
A collection of poetry that riffs and talks back to Leopold von Sascher-Masoch, author of notorious classic 'Venus in Furs'.
![Tom Moore, 'Dandy Lion among The Antipodes', 2023. Photo: Grant Hancock. Funky glass figures that combines animal features with human limbs.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Tom-Moore-Dandy-Lion-among-The-Antipodes-2023-Photo-by-Grant-Hancock-e1715647884760.jpg?w=310)
Opportunities and awards
30 UNDER 30 mentorship, free fashion business program, plus winners of richest women's art prize and books of the year!
![Image is of an open book on fire, surrounded by blue green smoke.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/ai-generated-8706245_1280-21.png?w=310)
Publisher offers free download of banned same-sex parenting book
Children's book 'A Focus On... Same-Sex Parents' is now available to download free of charge after it was banned from…
![NT Writers Festival, Darwin. Large group of people sitting on the ground listening to something or someone we can't see.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/NT-Writers-Festival-2022-0868-1.jpg?w=310)
NT Writers Festival interrogates the past and reimagines the future
The NT Writers Festival returns to the territory’s tropical capital from 27-30 June.
![Technical writer. Bookshelves full of colour coded files or bound reports. Along the top shelf are blue, green, lime and yellow ones. On the bottom grey and white.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/maarten-van-den-heuvel-8EzNkvLQosk-unsplash-11-e1715219133949.jpg?w=310)
Do you have what it takes to be a technical writer?
Are you very analytical, with an excellent grasp of communicating in plain English? You may be a good fit for…
![cat in a book. Tabby cat sits in a studio on a pile of papers or manuscripts. It is facing the left and looking off into the distance. The studio is filled with books and detritus and there is a woman in the background doing some sort of admin.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/micky-white-jFoHGC7JGmc-unsplash1-e1714629127953.jpg?w=310)
Look, look, a cat in a book! (part 2)
Still don't have enough cat books in your life? Here are 10 more books, especially for the young.
![Melbourne Art Book Fair returns for its 10th anniversary. Photo: Sean Fennessy. Photo of different art books with a range of bespoke covers.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/sf_sf_ngv-mdw_2023_82_88-1-1-e1715136051801.jpeg?w=310)
Are art books an anomaly in the publishing industry?
As Melbourne Art Book Fair gears for its 10th anniversary, ArtsHub asks how art and design books have survived the…