For Annie Dillard, the sonic intensity of poetry was critical to every form of writing she published throughout her life.
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His latest – and possibly last – book tackles America’s foreign policy before and after 9/11. Could it also serve as an antidote to the fragmented attention and political duplicity of our current moment?
Sydney’s new year-round program of literary events is budgeted at $1.5 million, creating over 300 paid opportunities for writers over 12 months.
The withdrawal of Karen Wyld’s A$15,000 fellowship for a Stolen Generations novel, due to a Gaza-related tweet, is part of a recent pattern.
Writers’ concerns about AI are not only about payment; they are about consent, trust and the future of their profession.
Mabel Segun, author of children’s books and Nigeria’s first female table tennis champion, died on 6 March 2025 aged 95.
Hate speech can harm, but where does art cross the line from thought-provoking into genuinely harmful?
Most screenwriters need to be able to craft characters outside their own backgrounds and experiences. But it isn’t easy and often requires collaboration – with AI able to offer a helping hand.
Paradoxically, the very scale of the crisis in Gaza makes worthwhile even the tiniest gesture of solidarity.
Even though her most famous work, ‘Bastard out of Carolina,’ deals with physical and sexual abuse, this merely constitutes one element of a broader emotional and physical landscape.
In a number of stories and novels, lost limbs represent both physical and metaphorical loss.
When Frank Herbert sat down in 1963 to start writing ‘Dune,’ he wasn’t thinking about how to leave Earth behind. He was thinking about how to save it.
The colorful bubble letters have attracted praise and condemnation, with taggers seeing their work as a gift to the city, while others decry it as rampant vandalism.
African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
In the Global South, a group of writers are rejecting the norms of science fiction and commenting on the future in a way that embraces Indigenous culture.
Nigeria’s writer and professor of drama, Kole Omotoso, died on 19 July 2023 aged 80.
The Hollywood actors’ strike is a watershed moment for the entertainment industry, marking a turning point for the future of labour in the arts.
‘Literary couples are a plague,’ wrote Elsa Morante, married to Alberto Moravia. They’re one of the couples in this lively exploration of what happens when two writers share loves and lives.
The writers strike lays bare all the ills of working on one of the lowest rungs of the entertainment industry.
A strain of sorrow and pessimism underlies all of Vonnegut’s fiction, as well as his graduation speeches. But he also insisted that young people cherish those fleeting moments of joy.
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Associate Professor and Archivist, Boise State University
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Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
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Maitre de conferences en histoire de l'Europe moderne, Université de York, Fellow 2018 - IEA de Paris, Institut d'études avancées de Paris (IEA) – RFIEA
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Professor of English, University of Colorado Denver
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Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Hope College
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Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of English and Literary Arts, University of Denver
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Professor, University of Alberta
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Professor of English, West Virginia University
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Journalist and Communications scholar, Trinity University, Lagos
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Senior Lecturer, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
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Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Professor of History, University of Victoria
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate in English Literature, Cardiff University