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Pure Colour confirms Sheila Heti as one of the most inventive, searching, scintillating and mind-bending writers working today.
At Certain Points We Touch tells the story of a doomed relationship in a way that explores the parallels between writing and coming out.
The old-fashioned Hollywood femme fatale leaps off the leopard skin rug to hijack the narrative in this lurid, avant-garde novel.
Verbal abilities provide benefits in school and in one’s career. Fostering a love for stories and fiction in children should be a high priority.
Julian Barnes’ Elizabeth Finch is an unrequited love story and a philosophical novel that asks how we understand ourselves and others.
In her latest book, the Pulitzer Prize winning author suggests how the 21st century novel might renew itself.
In her second novel, Yumna Kassab delves into the connections and unspoken traumas of regional communities.
Part historical novel, part speculative fiction, A History of Dreams examines the themes of inequality and authoritarianism from the perspective of a coven of witchy young women.
The Furies is a devastating book, but one that hints at the possibility of redemption and reckoning.
The Fish is a novel about a writer’s growth to maturity, but it is also a strange story about family breakdown, difference and shame.
The intimate connections between life and art are explored in the deeply satisfying conclusion to a quartet of novels about one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
On International Women’s Day, two women writers discuss feminism, writing in the age of Trump and Covid – and being ‘flabbergasted’ by the absence of birth from Western art and philosophy.
Black writers like Charles Chesnutt had to contend with a dilemma writers today know all too well: give the audience and editors what they want, or wallow in obscurity.
If characters on TV consumed less, research has found it can have an impact on the environmental behaviour of audiences
On Dec. 2, 1941, a publication date was set for Mori’s first book. Five days later, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, upending the writer’s life and throwing the book’s publication into doubt.
There’s something disturbing about a story tracking a character’s mental decline for thrills. Happily, Paula Hawkins’ new novel, A Slow Fire Burning, joins a genre of books bucking this trend.
Each of this year’s shortlisted books shimmer with energy, tenderness and threads of optimism — and even occasionally joy.
Eric Carle’s famous book about a caterpillar was originally about a book worm.
In this influential novel, two Persians travel to Paris and report their bemusement at its customs. Questions such as the dilemmas of tolerance and the social nature of our identities are explored.
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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Adjunct Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, UNSW Canberra, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
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Dean of Research (Creative), Adelaide University
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Director of Creative Writing, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
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Professor, English and Creative Writing, Adelaide University
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