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Unconformity. Image: Indie Rights. Female geologists on screen.
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From darning socks to licking rocks: I watched every movie with a female geologist and here’s what I learned

Verity Borthwick, author of Hollow Air, watched 25 films featuring female geologists and unearthed some rock-solid stereotypes.

Jack Edwards, the internet's resident librarian.
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Jack Edwards is becoming one of the most important figures in publishing

Still in his twenties, Jack Edwards has quickly become the UK's refined arbiter of good taste in literature.

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All the Way to the River review: Elizabeth Gilbert gets personal again

All the Way to the River chronicles Gilbert's decades-long friendship and romance with Rayya Elias.

Louise Wallace, author of Ash. Image supplied.
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Louise Wallace – five questions for the Ash author

Ash author Louise Wallace discusses her debut novel, what she's learned as a writer, and the link between novels and…

A young man wearing a beanie sitting at his desk with a laptop and drawing on a small surface. Opportunities for creatives.
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 1-7 September 2025

Drawing prize open for entries, grants available for festival ideas that celebrate older people’s creativity and more opportunities.

A man in a red shirt standing against foliage. Mark Mupotsa-Russell, author of The Wolf Who Cried Boy.
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The Wolf Who Cried Boy review: Mark Mupotsa-Russell’s heart-wrenching second novel

A six-year-old child’s reality blurs with fantasy in The Wolf Who Cried Boy.

A scene from 'The Past is a Wild Party' by Noelle Janaczewska, one of the 7-ON playwrights. The photo depicts a female-presenting actor with blonde hair and wearing a long-sleeved blue shirt and red trousers. Her arms are outstretched, her head tilted back and her mouth open as if she is exclaiming ecstatically. She holds a closed book with a red cover, perhaps a play script, in her left hand.
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The 7-ON playwrights: how to sustain a collective for 20 years

Members of playwrights collective 7-ON discuss their new anthology, and how they’ve operated successfully for two decades to date.

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Walking Sydney: how Belinda Castles found her footing in the Harbour City

In Walking Sydney, Castles takes walks with some of Australia's biggest writers in order to see the city anew.

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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 25-31 August 2025

ArtsHub's new Creative Journalism Fellowship, Create SA grants, environmental artist residency, First Nations Arts Leadership and more opportunities.

A brunette woman wearign a black top against foliage, Jessica Mansour-Nahra, author of The Farm.
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The Farm review: Jessica Mansour-Nahra’s page-turning gothic thriller

Jessica Mansour-Nahra's The Farm poses troubling questions about the cycle of domestic violence, motherhood, and female bodily autonomy.

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