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From the desk of your favourite author
22 October 2021
Kill Your Darlings asked Australian authors about their writing routines, and to share images of their working spaces.
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Australian writing, literature
The Secret Life of Writers podcast with Charlotte Wood
21 October 2021
Sydney based Australian author Charlotte Wood speaks to Jemma Birrell, creative director at Tablo Publishing, and host of the Secret Life of Writers podcast. Wood, who is based in Sydney’s bustling inner west, speaks of the quiet she finds on the NSW Central Coast, something conducive to her writing. That I can go for. Fascinating to hear Wood describe her writing journey. She started out wanting to write, but not knowing what to write.
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Stella Prize 2022 entries close tomorrow
20 October 2021
Well, that was fast. Entries for the Stella Prize 2022 close tomorrow, Thursday, 21 October 2021. It seems like only a week or two ago when I wrote that entries had opened, but it’s more like six weeks.
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Australian literature, literary awards, Stella Prize
The Melbourne Writers Festival 2021, rewound
19 October 2021
Re-live this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival through podcasts from last month’s event. And not to be left out, the Sydney Writer’s Festival has also made recordings of proceedings from this year available.
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Easy On Me, new music from Adele
16 October 2021
After a six year recording hiatus English musician Adele releases a new single, Easy On Me. The track is lifted from her album, 30, which is scheduled to be released on Friday, 19 November, 2021.
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The T. S. Eliot Prize 2021 poetry shortlist announced
15 October 2021
The 2021 shortlist for the T. S. Eliot Prize for poetry has been announced. The winner, who will be named in January 2022, will receive £25,000, while the nine runners up will each pocket £1,500. It’s good to see the efforts of poets that may usually go unrecognised, being recognised.
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literature, poetry, T. S. Eliot
The Man Himself, new music from Gang of Youths
9 October 2021
The Man Himself, new music from Sydney based Australian music act Gang of Youths, I won’t say no to that. A third album is reportedly on the way, but no word yet as to when it’ll arrive.
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Love Your Bookshop Day 2021
9 October 2021
Happy Saturday. Today is Love Your Bookshop Day, and the occasion couldn’t be timelier after many bookshops in some parts of Australia have had to keep their doors closed for months, and contend with a series of lengthy lockdowns that have affected everyone.
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On final approach: Forever, the new Flight Facilities album
7 October 2021
Seven years after the release of their debut Down to Earth, Sydney based Australian electronic act Flight Facilities lands on Friday, 12 November 2021, with their new album Forever. I’ve been queuing up their new singles – including the title track – on Spotify for weeks now… let the countdown to 12 November commence.
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All your emoji are belong to us
1 October 2021
Soon another thirty-seven new emojis will be available for use on your favourite oblong shaped device, says the Unicode Consortium. One, the melting face emoji, a representation of climate change, has quickly become a crowd favourite.
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