Are you keeping up with your reading resolutions for 2020? If you’re stuck for your next read, check out some of these great recommendations from the Writing NSW staff.

Each month the NSW Writers’ Centre staff share what we’ve been reading. This month includes confronting but important stories of war by two Australian war-survivors, with Noël Zihabamwe’s One Thousand Hills and Deng Adut’s story, Songs of a War Boy. Stories of dealing with cancer has also been a theme, with Luke Ryan’s A Funny […]

Jane McCredie, Executive Director Helen Garner’s latest book, Everywhere I Look, is a collection of her essays, diary entries and other short writing. From the agony of moving house to the indignities of ageing, Garner turns her observant eye to the details of ordinary lives, including her own. In these wide ranging pieces, she offers […]

We’ve been a diverse bunch of readaholics this past month, devouring everything from lit journals to audiobooks to poetry and short story collections. Here’s what’s been on the NSWWC reading radar throughout April. Bridget Lutherborrow, Projects & Communications Officer I took some time to get stuck into Issue 29 of The Lifted Brow recently. What […]

‘Garner’s sensibility remains an anchor beneath me as an Australian woman writer, just as Hulme is a rock of Indigenous thought that I rest against weekly.’