The best communities are the ones that recognise they are a small part of a really large ecosystem that they can never control.

‘The short story has an intensity that cannot be replicated all the way through a longer text like a novel – that’s when you know it is a successful story.’

‘The earlier students start writing, the better off they will be, even if they haven’t done all of the research they need to do when they start writing.’

From zombie novels to Man Booker Prize winners, take a look at what we’ve been reading lately. Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Program Officer The Girl with All the Gifts by MR Carey My first novel was about killer bees from Mars that come back to Earth and kill everyone (for context, I was 14). My second […]

Felicity Castagna‘s latest book, The Incredible Here and Now received the Prime Minister’s Literature Award (YA). Felicity spent several years as a high school English teacher before leaving to teach creative writing in universities, community organisations and schools. She is an experienced Extension 1 and 2 teacher as well as an experienced HSC marker who […]

Felicity Castagna is the author of the short story collection Small Indiscretions: Stories of Travel in Asia (Transit Lounge, 2011) and The Incredible Here and Now (Giramondo, September 2013), which won the Prime Minister’s Literature Award for Young Adult Fiction in 2015. She has also edited several short story collections, her most recent being On […]

Felicity Castagna is a Parramatta-based writer and teacher. Her work has been produced for ABC Radio National and Triple J. Her stories are widely published in Australian literary journals including Heat, Island and Going Down Swinging. Her first collection of stories is Small Indiscretions: Stories of Travels in Asia (Transit Lounge). She is currently developing […]