Words by Rosalind Moran, Blogger in Residence The world is full of impenetrable questions. Who is responsible for the word ‘flibbertigibbet’? Why is one sock always missing? And could the Pavlova really be as Australian as Crowded House? Yet one issue repeatedly proves itself to be even more complex: that of Australian culture and literary … Continue reading
Today, 20 June is World Refugee Day. Blogger in Residence, Penny Hanley, looks into how art and literature depicts the lives of refugees. “Refugees live in a divided world, between countries in which they cannot live and countries which they may not enter.” Elie Wiesel, American, Romanian-born Holocaust survivor, writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, … Continue reading
Sophie Constable, one of our new Bloggers in Residence, discusses how our canine friends are much like our favourite page-turners. A good dog is like a good book. Well-loved (hence dog-eared). Always there when you need them. Minor indiscretions can be forgiven because they’ve captured your heart. As a veterinarian and an author, I’m well … Continue reading
Recently our Blogger in Residence Nalini Haynes talked to Will Kostakis about equity and representation in literature. Will is “made in Australia from imported ingredients”. His nana came to Australia by boat as an adult with a primary school education. Her children, Will’s parent’s generation were the first in the family to finish high school, … Continue reading
Blogger in Residence, Rosalind Moran, questions the notion of Women’s Fiction as a genre, and what this means for writers. Book categories are strange creatures, not unlike boa serpents. With every new release, the book category snake comes along, pinches and squeezes— reduces—and then swallows its prey whole. Yet what pushes both readers and publishers … Continue reading
After returning from his trip to China, Kabu Okai-Davies shares his thoughts from this year’s Bookworm International Literary Festival, held in Beijing. In March 2016, I participated in the tenth annual Bookworm Literary Festival in Beijing, my third visit to China. During my previous visits I travelled beyond Beijing, to places like Shanghai, Xinging and … Continue reading
Muse, Canberra. Photograph by Jonathan McFeat. Blogger in Residence, Shu-Ling Chua has the run-down on everything literary in our fine city. There’s no denying it. I’m immensely proud to have gotten my writing ‘break’ in Canberra. Like the city itself, Canberra’s literary scene combines the best of a big city and a smaller, community-focused town. … Continue reading
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