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Australia’s bookshops are in trouble, and that’s bad news for readers. But there are ideas we could borrow from Europe to help make our bookshops healthy again.
Lives that matter: new novels by Trish Bolton and Graeme Nash defy the stereotypes of older women in fiction.
The narrator of Charlotte Wood’s new novel has shed her life to live with nuns. The world intrudes in the form of COVID, a mouse plague and recovered bones, delivered by someone from her past.
Old women remain the butt of jokes; they are some of society’s most marginalised people. But age also invites us to become our most authentic selves, writes Carol Lefevre.
Funding for writing and publishing is not just low: it’s also declining. Ben Eltham looks at a grim federal budget for literature, in the context of ongoing neglect for written culture in Australia.
Kangaroos are a national icon, but Australian authors seem determined to kill them off.
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Visiting Research Fellow, Department of English and Creative Writing, Adelaide University
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Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Associate Professor, English and Creative Writing, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor, Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
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Senior Tutor in Publishing & Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Publishing, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Publishing & Communications
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Senior Lecturer in English, University of Tasmania
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Director of AustLit, Associate Professor in Digital Cultural Heritage, The University of Queensland