Tonile Wortley reviews Two Days Gone, a suspenseful thriller by Randall Silvis.

An oracle, a small town, and a disappearing sea—Robert Fairhead reviews the unconventional Australian novel Dyschronia by Jennifer Mills.

Submissions are now closed for Quantum Words 2018.

‘Rather than being motivated by imagined commercial success, be driven by the joy of telling stories which give pleasure to readers.’

Amanda McLeod reviews Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau, an experimental new novel from Brow Books.

Author and editor Davina Bell has spent a lot of time thinking about how to infuse picture books with magic. A former senior editor at Penguin Books, Davina currently works on the children’s list at Affirm Press in Melbourne, and she’s authored a number of award-winning picture books. Her most recent book, Under the Love Umbrella, was published […]

John Mancy writes a thought-provoking review of Daniel Tammet’s Every Word is a Bird we Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language.

Brook Emery has published five poetry collections, including and dug my fingers in the sand, which won the Queensland Premier’s Prize. We spoke to Brook about writing poetry, the process of gathering ideas and the value of re-drafting.