Eight Australian writers have been shortlisted for the 2015 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship $10,000 award, including South Australian author and SA Writers Centre Board member, Patrick Allington. (more…)

Book reviewing is a tricky business. As Kerryn Goldsworthy’s recent extended essay in Australian Book Review shows, knowing what a review’s purpose is (or should be), who it serves (or should serve), what its value is (or should be), are complicated and contested questions. I approach book reviewing with several anchoring principles, although these principles […]