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Jennifer Down wins the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award with Bodies of Light, a shattering novel of loneliness and heartbreak

Image: Jennifer Down. Photo: Monique Ferguson Jennifer Down’s Bodies of Light is a shattering novel, one that breaks and then rebuilds its readers. It has won the 2022...

A touch of hope after the doom? Your guide to the Miles Franklin 2022 shortlist

This year’s Miles Franklin shortlist is lyrical in voice, complex in form, and perhaps a little more hopeful than usual. The threads of shared...

Noir and nostalgia inform Chris Womersley’s tale of forgery, grief, and the seamy side of urban life

Image: Kevin Laminto/Unsplash Before prospective readers can get to the opening chapter of Chris Womersley’s new novel The Diplomat, they will find themselves assailed with several...

Gwen Harwood was one of Australia’s finest poets – she was also one of the most subversive

Image: Gwen Harwood (1920-1995). A.T. Bolton/Wikimedia commons Gwen Harwood is one of Australia’s finest poets. Her poetry is studied in secondary schools across the nation. While...

A dystopian or utopian future? Claire G. Coleman’s new novel Enclave imagines both

Image: Shutterstock I was reading Noongar author Claire G. Coleman’s third novel, Enclave, a few days after the US Supreme Court overturned the Roe v Wade judgement,...

How early Australian fairy tales displaced Aboriginal people with mythical creatures and fantasies of empty land

Image: Project Gutenberg - A prince flies in a carriage propelled by kingfishers in Hume Cook’s Australian Fairytales. Content warning: this article contains reference to...

The first-ever First Nations anthology of speculative fiction is playful, bitter, loud and proud

Image: Shutterstock This is not “just” an anthology of First Nations speculative fiction, but also the first anthology of First Nations speculative fiction. And what an entry onto...

Tasmanian author Amanda Lohrey wins prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award for The Labyrinth

Detail from The Labyrinth book cover. Text Publishing And the winner of 2021’s Miles Franklin Literary Award is The Labyrinth, by Amanda Lohrey! Two of Lohrey’s previous novels (Camille’s...

The Stella shortlist: your guide to 2021’s powerful, emotional books

  Picture: Stella Prize/The Conversation Each year, The Stella Prize honours writing by women. Good. We’ve come a long way. We’ve a long way to...

Guide to the classics: My Brilliant Career and its uncompromising message for girls today

National Film & Sound Archive Growing up in Australia in the 1970s, I much preferred the hijinks of Han Solo and Chewie to Princess Leia’s sexualised...
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