Your definitive guide to Australia’s best writing. The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were inaugurated by the State government in 1985 to honour Australian writing. The Wheeler Centre is proud to ...

The Kookaburra follows Diana, a year on from her husband’s death, as she reads his old emails and tries to rescue an injured kookaburra. The titular kookaburra subverts how animals often appear in ...

Henry Reynolds’ ground-breaking re-examination of Australian colonisation from the north down. When acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds moved from Hobart to Townsville to teach Australian history in ...

Disillusioned with her life in New York, Ruth returns to a lake town in Guatemala where she had been happy a decade earlier. There, in Panajachel, she meets two very different women: the calm and ...

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Margot McGovern’s love letter to 90s horror films will keep you on the edge of your seat. Four girls share a cabin in an abandoned town where the ghost of Smiling Jack haunts isolated campers. Shelley ...

Buck Angel was born a biological female and conquered a lifetime of adversity to undergo his transformation and become the healthy, happy, self-confident man he is today. Buck created the first FTM ...

Penny Wong is the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. Penny was born in Malaysia. As an eight year old she moved to Australia with her family and settled in ...

Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh is a writer and arts working living and creating on unceded Wurundjeri land. Ruby was the Artistic Director and co-ceo of Emerging Writers’ Festival from 2020-2025 and is a ...