A BOOK of love poetry has been awarded the ACT Book of the Year at the ACT Writers Centre awards at Ainslie Arts Centre last night. Paul Collis, a Barkindji man from Bourke, NSW, and […]
BUSES seem to run deep in Australian culture, and now news is to hand that “Russ the Story Bus” will be touring to Canberra this week (From November 20), visiting children at Ainslie Primary School, […]
MANIPULATIVE, terrible and fierce, yet William (Billy) McMahon was, until now, the only Australian prime minister who didn’t have a biography written about him. The 250,000-word, 766-page biography, “Tiberius with a Telephone”, by Patrick Mullins […]
“THE Natural Way of Things”, by Charlotte Wood, has been chosen as the 2019 University of Canberra Book of the Year. The UC Book Project, now in its seventh year, provides a selected book to […]
FOR the second time in its short history, the $15,000 vice-chancellor’s International Poetry Prize has gone to American poet poet Michael Lavers. At an event last night (September 13) vice-chancellor Prof Deep Saini told those […]
THE fourth year of the festival “Poetry on the Move”, kicked off today—with a change. Although hosted by the International Poetry Studies Institute within the University of Canberra the event is moving into town, with […]
IT’s a happy 200th birthday to Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel “Frankenstein” and the Australian National University is holding a conference to celebrate. The conference, “Frankenstein 2018: Two hundred years of monsters”, runs from today (September […]
AS organisers of the 2018 Canberra Writers Festival tie up loose ends, they must be thanking the gods of Parliament House for having played into the relentless theme, “Power, Passion and Politics” with a week […]
ONE of Canberra’s hottest properties on the literary front is Karen Viggers, but international success has neither gone to her head nor made her wealthy. A serious novelist with works like “The Stranding”, “The Lightkeeper’s […]
THE Children’s Book Council of Australia Book Week kicks off tomorrow (August 18), but to introduce it the ACT branch held an event this morning at the National Library of Australia to announce its 2018 […]
“Working-class domestic violence is a common theme in modern literature, but there is very little that covers middle-class domestic violence.,” writes Canberra author and academic ALISON BOOTH
SLEEP deprivation from a newborn and a postgraduate degree on metafiction was the perfect mix for the publication of Devon Sillett’s first children’s book, “The Leaky Story”. But it was a long time before Devon, […]
Journalist CAM WILSON talks to a Canberra submarine engineer whose stargazing and curiosity led him to a whole new career – fiction writing. With three books under his belt, there’s a fourth on the horizon.
CANBERRA author Maura Pierlot’s “The Trouble in Tune Town” has been was just awarded Best Illustrated Children’s E-Book at the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the US. As part of the official book launch and […]
CANBERRA writer and broadcast and tour guide Marg Wade has written two sellout editions of “Canberra’s Secrets” in 1999 and 2003 and the third edition will be launched this week by “CityNews” music writer Ian […]
WRITING and self-publishing a steamy novel set in Queensland’s tropical north has been “a dream come true”, says local author Trish Ollman. Trish will be signing copies of “Escape to Paradise Island” at Paperchain Bookshop […]
AUTHOR Kaaron Warren has been awarded the top fiction award for “The Grief Hole” at the 2017 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards tonight (December 7). “These awards play an important role in the fostering of […]
ACT Minister for Arts and Community Events, Gordon Ramsay, has announced that six authors are in the running to win the $10,000 2017 “Book of the Year Award”. The authors selected by the judging panel […]
THE University of Canberra has been punching above its weight in writing for some time now and has just launched the 2017 edition of “First”, its annual collection of creative by students, with readings from […]
SAD news is to hand that the Noted Writers Festival has decided not to run a festival in 2018 – but they’ll be back in 2019. After an action-packed event in May this year, and […]
ALL eastbound lanes on Parkes Way have been closed eastbound and access will be restricted for the next hour after a small tipper truck rolled over. A man has been taken to hospital and ACT […]
ON the anniversary of the January 2003 bushfires, the ACT Emergency Services Agency has released confronting footage from the fire to urge Canberrans to get “bushfire ready”. The video, shot by “Channel 9” cameraman Richard […]
PROF Ken Lampl has stepped down as head of the ANU School of Music, it was announced to staff yesterday (Thursday, January 17) by Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences Rae Frances. […]
MITCHELL workers were left confused just after 10am this morning (Friday, January 18) when a commercial building on Flemington Road in Mitchell shook for a few seconds. Not long after earthquakes.ga.gov.au reported a 3.1 magnitude […]
MULTIPLE firefighting crews are tackling a fire at a home in Isabella Plains. ACT Fire & Rescue responded to the fire on Bucknel Circuit at about 9.30am this morning (Friday, January 18). The ACT Ambulance […]
