In our first What We’re Reading feature of 2024, check out what the Writing NSW team has been enjoying and why! Read our thoughts on poetry collections, anthologies, fiction, short story and more.

See what the Writing NSW staff have enjoyed the most in 2023, and what we’ll be reading over the holidays to end the year!

At April’s First Friday Club Delia Falconer and Bronwyn Mehan joined us to discuss anthologies and their place in Australian literature. Delia Falconer is the author of two acclaimed novels and the editor of a number of anthologies, including the Penguin Book of the Road and Best Australian Stories 2008/2009. She also heads the student-run Writers’ Anthology at the University of Technology, Sydney. Bronwyn Mehan is the editor of Spineless Wonders,