News from the literary scene in Australia

The three rulers of the writers' festival circuit Three young women --  Lisa Dempster, Kate Eltham and Jemma Birrell -- now lead Australia's three largest events for writing and literature. Amber Jamieson profiles the trio. Read more A drawing a day: Ramona Koval "We know a hell of a lot, this generation," author Helen Garner declared while launching Ramona Koval's book By the Book: A reader's guide to life. Koval is W H Chong's latest portrait. On a year of literary prizes Liticism's Bethanie Blanchard examines how her year has been punctuated and, in many ways, dictated by literary prizes, the months moving on a sea of All That I Ams and Foal's Breads. Read more Read more

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