Supporting writers is nation-building work, and expectations are high for the new body with its re-inaugurated poet laureate Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Writing Australia, Creative ...

It was a grim federal budget for arts and culture on Tuesday night. With the end of the Morrison government’s pandemic stimulus program for culture, the RISE fund, there will be a rapid withdrawal of ...

After 85 years of continuous publication, Meanjin, Australia's second-oldest literary journal, is closing. Editor Esther Anatolitis and deputy editor Eli McLean have been made redundant and the final ...

NAPLAN analysis shows the writing skills of Australian children are at an all-time low after what's been described as a "30-year policy failure" in schools. To help reverse the decline, new resources ...

Most Australian book authors do not earn enough income from their creative practice to make ends meet. They rely on other jobs and other support, such as a partner's income. In the 2020–21 financial ...

A laureateship will force government, academic and literary institutions to confront their wilful neglect of poetry – and ask poets to begin to look outward, too A good friend of mine, a Tasmanian ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A new national writing organisation has been launched and it's aptly called Writing Australia. Writing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patrick White c.1940 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Did you know that 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Patrick White ...

After 85 years of continuous publication, Meanjin, Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, is closing. Editor Esther Anatolitis and deputy editor Eli McLean have been made redundant and the final ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After 85 years of continuous publication, Meanjin, Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, is closing. Editor Esther ...