Writing and Publishing

AFTRS Open Days: Fast-track your Screen and Broadcast Career
Learn about AFTRS future-focused screen & broadcast courses at Open Day & Postgraduate Information Evening.

Applause: latest award winners
This week sees NT songwriters shine, South Australian artists awarded at a gala celebration, and Waverley art winners showcased at…

New residency program supports indie companies
The new program will support three independent companies across two years, providing them with space to create and present work…

Why non-Indigenous Australians should read First Nations writing
Reading can be a political act, an act of solidarity, an expression of willingness to listen and to learn from…

On the move: the latest appointments and resignations
New CEO for Film and Sound Archive, and Producers announced for Regional Centre for Culture.

Securing Australia’s Future by Simon Torok and Paul Holper
Torok and Holper have distilled the many recommendations of the ACOLA reports into an eminently readable and persuasive form.

Career spotlight: Arts publicist
Gaining publicity for your work is about more than getting bums on seats. Here, three established publicists talk about the…

How to reduce sexism in screenplays
Before cameras even begin to roll, female characters suffer sexism in how they are described on the pages of screenplays.…

How to get your manuscript published
Your writing hasn’t been in vain; research indicates an upswing in book sales in Australia. Now is the time to…

Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
The melancholy in Murakami’s writing is something that is not quite hope and yet pays tribute to the human spirit.