The Canberra Writers’ Festival is just around the corner and artistic director Jeanne Ryckmans is ready to face it with aplomb, despite three horror years behind her, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
ACT Writers (formerly the ACT Writers’ Centre) presented two years of its ACT Notable Awards marking published books over the past years —2020 and 2021 — during which presentation ceremonies have been curtailed.
With an eclectic line up featuring everything from Jane and Jimmy Barnes’ cookbook to a Zoom conversation with Chilean writer Isabel Allende, the 2022 Canberra Writers Festival program was launched last night.
When the 2022 Napier Waller Art Prize winner is announced at Parliament House, many may wonder who Napier Waller was, but with the publication of a new book, “The Glass Cricket Ball", that question is well and truly answered.
A TINY settlement in the magnificent Monaro, caught between the alps and the coastal escarpment, is the source of inspiration for Canberra region writer Nigel Featherstone’s second novel, out this month.
A Canberra writer has made it to the top three nominations for Britain’s most admired award for historical military history writing, the Templer Medal.
Photography reviewer CON BOEKEL was pretty impressed with a book about moths in the ACT.
IN his newest crime thriller “Kill Your Brother”, Canberra author Jack Heath brings a twisted tale of revenge to his own backyard.
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'.
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.
Lisa Fuller’s novel 'Ghost Bird' has been named 2020 ACT Book of the Year by Arts Minister Tara Cheyne.
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.
