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Features

AI copyright crisis: Australian writers push back against AI training deals

AI copyright tensions escalate as authors challenge publishing contracts that allow their work to train artificial intelligence models.

From the side we see a woman in a red cloak and white bonnet who bows her head so we can't see her face; she is in a line with other women dressed the same. The Handmaid's Tale.
Opinions & Analysis

Every story finds its audience – what we can learn from The Handmaid's Tale

What the final season of the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel teaches us about storytelling, voice and the power…

A lavishly set up photograph featuring a red velvet sofa and a figure dressed in a blond wind, cut out red velvet costume where the limbs extend like bug claws. Australian Life Photography Competition finalist Chrissie Hall, ‘The bargain of a life: a couch with legs and no breasts’. Opportunities.
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Opportunities and awards

Enlighten Festival callout, SA Arts Leadership Program open, plus finalists across the 2025 National Biography Award, Bowness Photography Prize and…

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Inconvenient Women review – Australian literary cage-rattlers and trailblazers

From the suffragists to the feminist writers of the 1970s, this book navigates both their inconsistencies and their courage when…

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News

Hill of Content: human chain helps 103-year-old Melbourne bookshop relocate

Around 300 people showed up at Hill of Content today, forming a human chain to help move 17,000 books.

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News

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.

art books, a woman reads a book in front of an open fire.
News

Curl up with these new art books this winter

15 books that beckon you to stay in … even on a sunny winter’s day.

A person with the word poetry on a white t-shirt. They are wearing jeans and holding a book. Poetry Month. Red Room Poetry.
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Poetry Month returns with nationwide coverage

Red Room's annual celebration returns to showcase the breadth of Australian poetry.

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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. a photo of a death cap mushroom in Ukraine. Erin Patterson.
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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.

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