Nominations have opened for the position of Australia’s Poet Laureate, but at least at this stage, you cannot nominate ...

For more than 65 years, book lovers have descended on Adelaide every summer for Australia’s longest running literary festival ...

Writing Australia has also confirmed nominations for the inaugural National Poet Laureate will open soon, marking the next step in establishing the ...

Ben Eltham has previously received funding from the Australia Council for the Arts. He is affiliated with the Centre for Future Work at The Australia Institute, where he has previously co-written a ...

Writers Victoria, one of a national network of centres providing crucial support and employment to writers, has lost its ...

Writers in Australia have always had a precarious career path. But lately, it seems even those things you have can be swept away. You’ve found a publisher, but then they merge with a bigger publisher, ...

Felicity Volk is Australia’s ambassador to Nepal, but many may not know that she is also a novelist. Long before joining Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Volk had grown up ...

The first 25 years of this century have seen millions of books published worldwide. Of these, many have made an indelible cultural impact. But is there a single book that has captured the hearts and ...

Australian literature ostensibly grew out of both this physical settlement and out of the English literary traditions, adapting them, and later European and American forms, to describe, celebrate, or ...