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.
Books
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.
Books
CIMF / Peelman's book, a 'eulogy in his own lifetime'
A new book about the director of the Canberra International Music Festival, Roland Peelman, was launched yesterday. Arts editor HELEN MUSA was there.
Books
Paul's book goes behind enemy lines
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.
Books
Boyd's journey through diplomacy's 'sexist dark age'
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.
A humurous fantasy novel about a “slightly OCD princess” and a Javanese journey with a bunch of “bandit saints” are among the winners in the 2020 ACT Writers Awards, it was announced virtually this week, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
THERE was good news for Canberra publicist and author Marilyn Chalkley at the launch of her new children’s book, “Swifty the Greyhound: Where Is My Pie?”
Publicist Marilyn Chalkley's new children's book about her cheeky rescue greyhound, Swifty, will help raise funds for the charity Greyhound Connections.
BILL STEPHENS reviews the book 'Chalet Monet – Inside the home of Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge', about the couple's fairytale Lake Geneva home.
Canberra's Geoff Page is the 2020 winner of the Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry for his poem “Jericho”, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
“WHO am I, really?” asks social researcher and psychologist Hugh Mackay, in his latest book “The Inner Self”.
