Australia’s first and, so far, only female prime minister, Julia Gillard, is set to chair the UK’s Women’s prize for fiction in 2026. The annual award is for the best full-length novel... Read more »
The deputy chair of the Melbourne writers festival, Leslie Reti, has resigned over a poetry session on Aboriginal and Palestinian solidarity in this year’s program. The festival’s artistic director, Michaela McGuire, has... Read more »