Michelle Wright is a writer of short stories. Her debut collection, Fine, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, and will be published by Allen and Unwin in ...

Roddy Doyle is the author of nine novels, a collection of stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir of his parents.

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Celebrating the winner of 2024’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, Rachel Morton discusses her highly anticipated novel The Sun Was Electric Light. The Sun Was Electric ...

Dr Gail Dines is professor of sociology and women’s studies at Boston’s Wheelock College. Her work focuses on the hypersexualisation of culture and the way porn filters into pop culture. Her latest ...

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of two novels - Everything is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) - and a work of non-fiction, Eating Animals (2009). In 2010, he ...

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Christopher Paolini was educated at home by his parents. His abiding love of fantasy and science fiction inspired him to write his debut novel, Eragon, when he graduated from high school at 15.

An evening of readings and performance to launch Next Chapter fellowship recipient Anne-Marie Te Whiu’s debut poetry collection, a defiant celebration of her Māori lineage, language and culture.

Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian politician and author of the memoir Even Silence Has an End, was held hostage from 2002 to 2008 by FARC rebels. Ingrid Betancourt was born in Colombia and raised ...

Liao Yiwu is a Chinese poet, novelist and screenwriter currently living in exile in Germany because of government suppression of his work in China. He is the author of the epic poem ‘Massacre’, the ...