Check out some of the wonderful literary events happening in Sydney and around NSW (and online) this August!

Have a look at what the Writing NSW team has been reading over the last month: short stories, crime fiction, our own program manager’s debut, a black comedy, and poetic YA.

Check out some of the wonderful literary events happening in Sydney and around NSW (and online) this July!

Have a look at what the Writing NSW team has been reading recently: stories of Country, queerness, grief, coming of age, and speculative fiction.

‘Individual words on their own are rarely enough to tell you anything meaningful. They need to be grouped together to convey a message. Putting words into a sentence gives you context, insight, nuance, sometimes an introduction to a whole new world.’

‘For me, writing a complicated character is like putting together a puzzle with a thousand pieces, without a clear picture on the box to help guide you towards the final scene. And with puzzles like that, it’s always about where you start.’

‘Process, for me, is a compound and an evolution of the known and unknown. Eventually I wound up here as a poet obsessed with this ineffable substance I hear in the storytelling of my Elders. I don’t know if should call it poetics or spirit but it exists in just about everything …’

‘When a piece is going to exist off the page there is a beautiful invitation to consider an additional form and function in that new medium.’

Check out some of the wonderful literary events happening in Sydney and around NSW (and online) this June!