Writing and Publishing

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.

Where to for Fringe after 70 years?
Commemorating 70 years of Fringe Festivals, World Fringe Day takes place on 11 July. But is the Fringe model still…

Working on Country – what does it mean?
The isolation of working in remote Australia is no drawback for a network of Indigenous art centres, which act as…

Report shows private support for arts has grown
A new report has found that private support for the arts has grown in Australia over the past six years,…

Applause: recent winners
From regional Victoria to far north Queensland, this week's award winners span states and art forms.

Getting to grips with cultural participation in the arts
If we want to see more culturally diverse audiences and artists, we have to develop hands on – not token…

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
A book by George Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller.