To be in residence at Varuna is to briefly embody another self.

In the current global zeitgeist, how is it possible to not think about race?

As I write this, Sydney, the city where I’ve set my life and much of my fiction over the past 27 years, is ringed by fire and choked by smoke.

In early October an attorney connected with Donald Trump, John Dowd, sent a letter to Congress stating that his clients would not be cooperating with the Ukraine inquiry.

One of the most common questions I am asked when I say that I write poetry is ‘what is poetry?’

As 1936 turned into 1937, the Australian novelist Eleanor Dark found herself embroiled in an epistolary skirmish with her U.S. literary agents.

In Rachel Cusk's latest novel Kudos, one of the characters is ensconced at a writers' residence in an Italian castle owned by a lascivious countess.

Mark O’Flynn discusses his Miles Franklin shortlisted novel, The Last Days of Ava Langdon.

Who’d be a writer?

Mark Brandi speaks about his gripping debut novel Wimmera.

Surely one of the great joys of Sydney Writers Festival is discovering new authors to adore.

The 2017 Eric Dark Memorial Lecture: Crossing the Line by Professor Wendy Rogers

Alumni interview with novelist Katherine Johnson

Autumn at Varuna has certainly lived up to Keats’ ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’

A silent pact exists between author and reader…

We wish everyone a very safe and sane end to 2016

Writing: what better life could there be – so long as you manage to make a living from it?

Diana Jenkins in conversation with Ann Moyal

Vanessa Kirkpatrick writes on the acclaimed poet Deborah Westbury

The rush is on for literary gold at the Cairns Tropical Writers’ Festival