Jack brings twisted revenge to his own backyard
IN his newest crime thriller “Kill Your Brother”, Canberra author Jack Heath brings a twisted tale of revenge to his own backyard.
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CANBERRA author Peter Papathanasiou has made a foray into “ethnic noir” with the invention of a Greek-Australian detective, Sgt George Manolis, despatched from police headquarters to look into a crime committed in his home town, Cobb.
Book review / “How Local Art Made Australia’s National Capital”, Anni Doyle Wawrzyńczak (ANU Press). Reviewed by MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE.
The Majura Café Poets, who have been meeting for years in different cafés and hostelries around the north, have launched their 2020 anthology 'Toast To Poetry'.
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Awards to focus on local writers
ACT Writers has opened submissions for the 2021 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards, as well as for a suite of named family awards administered by the organisation.
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‘Ghost Bird’ wins local Book of the Year
Lisa Fuller’s novel 'Ghost Bird' has been named 2020 ACT Book of the Year by Arts Minister Tara Cheyne.
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Uncertainty postpones Canberra Writers Festival
The Canberra Writers Festival, due to be staged from August 18-22, has been postponed until late October or early November.
The inaugural Headland Writers Festival is done and dusted, but as the organisers bask in the sunshine of congratulations, plans are afoot to continue the festival on a long-term basis.
Part of the burgeoning arts scene on the far south coast, the new Headland Writers Festival kicks off this weekend at Tathra.
Emma Batchelor has won a publication deal with Allen & Unwin for her debut auto-fiction novel “Now That I See You”, based on her experiences when her partner’s emerging transgender status shattered their relationship.
A new book about the director of the Canberra International Music Festival, Roland Peelman, was launched yesterday. Arts editor HELEN MUSA was there.
A book about Australian guerrillas who operated behind enemy lines in Borneo during World War II will be launched next week by its author, former Canberra political journalist Paul Malone.
A timely new book by pioneering diplomat Sue Boyd lifts the veil on one of Australia’s most male-dominated professions, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
ANNIE Gidman was a survivor, says her daughter Jenni McMullan, who’s written her mum’s biography “A Good Girl… Seldom” from recordings made before she died.
Canberra writer Irma Gold's newly-published debut novel “The Breaking” is largely set in the Thai elephant rehabilitation camps of Chiang Mai, Surin and Kanchanaburi.
NICK OVERALL meets Gillian Polack, the author of weird and wonderful fiction that’s been praised for not just for being outside the box, but far, far away from it all together.
“IS tofu processed?” was the irritating question that inspired first-time author Ayla Marika to find out.
“WHAT’S the most horrible character I can come up with, but have the audience still like him?” NICK OVERALL interviews author Jack Heath.
The ACT Writers Centre has appointed arts and writing advocate, Meg Wilson, to the role of CEO.
