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Rebecca F Kuang speaking at All About Women 2024, Sydney Opera House. Photo: Jaimi Joy. Kuang is wearing a black sleeveless dress with floral patterns with her hands raised in the middle of explaining something. She has black tied-up hair and a black fringe. On the left is the cover of ‘Yellowface’, with two slanted almond eyes on a bright yellow background.
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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…

Photo: Jill Kerswill. Left: Photo of Melanie Saward, a woman with light skin and bright pink hair sitting with her hand across her lap, wearing a floral pink dress. In the background is a shelf filled with books. Right: Cover of 'Burn', depicting a shadow of a boy standing against a large flame.
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Book review: Burn, Melanie Saward

A powerful debut fiction that reveals unsettling answers to 'Why are good kids misbehaving?'.

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Book review: Vincent & Sien, Silvia Kwon

Forget your textbook knowledge of Vincent van Gogh.

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Book review: Songs for the Dead and the Living, Sara M Saleh

A powerful story about what it means to find home and identity among conflict and migration.

black&write! Fellows Jacob K Gallagher and Dakota Feirer. Image supplied
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Supernatural crime and poetry win Indigenous Fellowships

The State Library of Queensland’s black&write! Fellowships for 2023 have been announced with two diverse works from First Nations writers…

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Book review: Royals, Tegan Bennett Daylight

A unique and absorbing modern Australian YA story.

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Winners of 2022 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards announced

Writers across six categories took home $80,000 each, with a focus on stories of war.

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Book review: After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz

A series of vignettes, featuring the reimagined lives of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late 19th and early…

What if: a vision of 2030 in Australia if climate action becomes a reality. Image: Damon Gameau
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Damon Gameau’s Regenerating Australia eyes up climate solutions

The actor and director discusses his new film and how Australia's climate future could, and should, look.

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Book Review: A Voice in the Night by Sarah Hawthorn, Transit Lounge

An uneven thriller; enjoyable but not without flaws

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