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Roxane Gay on fierce opinions and why it’s good to be a little delusional
The New York Times writer Roxane Gay spoke in front of an enthusiastic Melbourne crowd on Tuesday night.
Can a festival provoke for all the best reasons?
At the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, nothing seems to be off the table – from a meditation on genocide to…
We live in a visual world
UK creative entrepreneur Marine Tanguy argues for the need of visual literacy when it comes to misinformation and AI.
Yellowface: insights from Rebecca F Kuang
Rebecca F Kuang’s debut literary fiction, ‘Yellowface’ has taken the publishing world by storm. She revealed more about the book's…
First look at 2024 Melbourne Writers Festival
Three international speakers have been revealed for the 2024 Melbourne Writers Festival with more to come.
Burning questions
Author Melanie Saward reflects on the evolution of her first novel, ‘Burn’, and what happens when Indigenous kids are severed…
Iconoclastic and empowered: the new wave of Middle Eastern Australian women writers
MENA women writers are gaining momentum in major literary prizes and across the nation’s bookstores, but is this movement iconoclastic?
Decolonising the written word
As an editor, a relatively new part of my brief is to be on the alert for colonial exceptionalism. What…
Book review: Fat Girl Dancing, Kris Kneen
An achingly honest memoir of otherness, queerness and embodied becoming.
Second consecutive poetry win for 2023 Stella Prize
Editor, critic and poet Sarah Holland-Batt has taken out the 2023 Stella Prize for a tender but unflinching collection on…