Readings has announced the shortlist for its New Australian Writing Award. The shortlisted titles are: Portable Curiosities (Julie Koh, UQP) The High Places (Fiona McFarlane, Hamish Hamilton) Music and Freedom... Read more
Writers Victoria has released the full program for the inaugural Chinese Writers Festival, to be held in Melbourne on 28 August. The program features a line-up of international Chinese and... Read more
A group of Australian academics have received an Australian Research Council grant to study contemporary Australian popular fiction and its methods of publishing. The project, ‘Genre Worlds: Australian Popular Fiction... Read more