Our first What We’re Reading post ended up containing plenty of awesome fiction by Australian women. A month on, what are we up to reading wise? A whole bunch of different stuff!

What would a child care worker, a filmmaker, a public servant, a passionate blogger and a singer/ songwriter have in common? Not much, you would think. But when five very diverse individuals — Janite Barker, Kodie Bedford, Nardi Simpson, Siv Parker and Robyn Ridgeway — came together for a Mentorship Program for Emerging Indigenous writers […]

The best sentences use a minimum of words to achieve their purpose. They slip easily into the minds of your audience and don’t give them the verbal equivalent of atherosclerosis. As Truman Capote said: “I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.” Here are five ways good editors cut the clutter: […]

2014 recipient of the Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship, Jacqui Dent, recaps her time at the residency.

Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of poetry collections Gil Scott Heron is on Parole and Nothing Here Needs Fixing. Her short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Award for a Unpublished Manuscript, The SMH Best Young Novelist 2015 and the Indie Book Award For Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for The […]

Congratulations to the following NSW Writers’ Centre members for their recent achievements! It is great to see members publishing novels, receiving fellowships and winning poetry awards. Inspiring stuff to keep putting pen to paper! Hugh Allan’s poem “The Ballad of Beryl and Ned” won first prize in the humour category of the Henry Lawson Festival […]

Zoë Norton Lodge is a comedic goddess. You may know her as the cat lady from The Checkout, a presenter on The Chaser’s Media Circus and the creator of ABC’s live storytelling program, Story Club. As if that wasn’t enough, Zoë has put the rest of us mere mortals to shame with the release of her kick-ass book Almost Sincerely. Thanks a lot, Zoë.