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Arts news watch: this week’s trending topics
We report it – you read it. This week: pub quiz literary questions, King’s Birthday Honours List, choosing a career…

Australian literary festivals in 2025
What bookish festivals are happening across the country this year?

Melbourne Rare Book Week returns
The annual festival showcases an array of events that highlight rare books, first editions and historical artefacts from around the…

Book review: The Theory of Everything, Yumna Kassab
Ambitious and far-ranging in scope, the book defies easy categorisation.

Book review: The Good Daughter, Kumi Taguchi
A memoir of the SBS journalist's struggle to understand her Japanese heritage.

The broken midlist: why it’s harder than ever to be a ‘moderately successful’ author
Once the heart of the publishing industry, midlist authors now face dwindling advances, fading support, and a market obsessed with…

Opportunities and awards
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award open for entries, city council funding available, plus winner of the Fogarty Literary Award in WA…

Arts news watch: this week’s trending topics
We report it – you read it. This week: the story behind this year’s Vivid centrepiece, a massive 3D tapestry,…

20 pub quiz literary questions
How many of these bookish answers do you know?

Book review: Wait Here, Lucy Nelson
A collection of stories exploring the topic of childlessness.