Cassandra Pybus’ portrait of Truganini renders her as a ‘‘living,breathing woman’’ free of metaphors of tragedy and extermination.
Belly dancing,palmistry,teaching,design,modelling,waitressing and law are among the activities Australian writers undertake to supplement their book earnings.
Karen Hitchcock's essays lift the veil on health system,including how the annual flu vaccine is put together,and why sometimes it doesn’t seem to work.
This year's Sydney Writers'Festival clocks mankind's creeping advance towards crisis.
A $10,000 pool of prize money is available for the first time for the winner and finalists of the prestigious SMH Best Young Australian Novelists award.
Millennial wordsmiths sending their pop verse viral on Instagram are making a motza – and proving poetry’s demise has been greatly exaggerated.
The Sydney Writers'Festival recorded ticket sales of more than $1.2 million and its third-highest number of paid attendances in the organisation's history.
Featured at the Sydney Writers'Festival,Megan McDonald says it took 10 years of perfecting her art before coming up with her signature character,Judy Moody.
All four writers have shown a desire to be experimental in their books.
The books chosen for The Sydney Morning Herald's awards are both playful and original.
In her first novel,Australian author Melanie Cheng writes with an unaffected wisdom born of her other career as a doctor.