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Should Melbourne lose its City of Literature status?
UNESCO has never rescinded a City of Literature designation, and doing so would be a nuclear option, but...
Pants down: how it feels to publish your first book
Miriam Webster, whose debut short story collection The Slip was published in July 2025, reflects on the experience of releasing…
Adelaide Writers Week crisis: former Adelaide Festival leaders call on Board to reinstate Randa Abdel-Fattah
The open letter to the Board of Adelaide Festival is signed by former Artistic Directors, Chief Executives and General Managers…
In 2026, can we please have fewer books published in Australia?
Publisher and all-round book lover Terri-ann White thinks too many books are published and rails against the cult of the…
You write like AI, people think it's AI generated—what should you do?
AI writing can be obvious, repetitive and obvious, leading to a tapestry of issues for human writers—let's delve into this…
Why I started Readers and Writers Against the Genocide (RWAG)
'As a literary community, we trade in creative freedom, free speech and the contestation of ideas,' says RWAG founder Aviva…
Why is there so little nature writing by disabled Australian writers?
Author Jessica White considers ecobiography, and how deafness shapes her relationship with natural and built environments.
I was the Archives Editor at Meanjin – its closure is baffling
As Archives Editor, Emma Sutherland had ‘read everything’ in Meanjin's past, but was unprepared for its troubled present.
Meanjin's value? We’ve done some calculations – and it’s not about money
Meanjin has an extraordinary record for contributing to public debate on matters important to the social fabric of Australian life.
Meanjin: bean counting misses the intangible value of reading and imagining
The closure of Australia's second oldest literary journal Meanjin contradicts Melbourne's stance as a UNESCO City of Literature.
