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We asked writers from Australia and overseas to tell us which books had knocked their socks off in the past year.

We asked writers from Australia and overseas to tell us which books had knocked their socks off in the past year.

Author Nicholas Jose says the Great Australian Novel 'isn't doing too badly, thanks'.

“How is The Great Australian Novel going?” asks a character in Thea Astley’s The Well Dressed Explorer, a Miles Franklin Literary Award w

A major new history of the Australian novel is shaped by the recent renaissance in Indigenous writing, but there are some notable omissions.

(1) REGRESS REPORT. Mari Ness says the 2025 World Fantasy Con is bringing the convention back to a venue it used a decade ago that still has substantial accessibility problems. Thread starts here. On Bluesky Ness added: The organization behind 2025 World Fantasy Con, HWS Events, replied on Bluesky: (2) THE END IS NEAR. Brian

On the Voice to parliament referendum – and public housing – author Tony Birch doesn’t spare either side of politics. Nor, for that matter, the Indigenous leaders of his generation.

SUNY Fredonia held its annual Veterans Remembrance Ceremony in the Williams Center Multipurpose Room Friday afternoon.

Among many other prizes for her stunningly original work, Alexis Wright has won Australia’s greatest literary honour, the Miles Franklin Award, for a novel of the highest literary merit representing Australian life. It is ironic, but sadly apt, that her epic Praiseworthy should be published in the year that Australians, offered a chance to give

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