Writing

From her teenage crushes to her feuds, Taylor Swift has been using confession, testimony and narrative to shape the public story of her life

Dr Laura Jean McKay, winner of the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for literature, discusses her astonishing first novel – The Animals in That Country

Paper was invented in China before it was introduced in Europe during the late Middle Ages, but no one really knew what happened in between

Poetry is a way of being alive and alert to the world in ways that we too often forget, says Professor David Mason

Kim Ho has won the prestigious Patrick White Playwrights’ Award for his play Mirror’s Edge, which explores the interplay of Anglo-European, Chinese, and Indigenous cultures in Australia across three centuries

A Q&A with author Christos Tsiolkas discussing his love affair with the works of Patrick White; part of a collaboration between the University of Melbourne, the State Library Victoria and independent publisher Black Inc called Writers on Writers -

In a collaboration between the University of Melbourne, the State Library Victoria and independent publisher Black Inc called Writers on Writers - modern authors reflect on the influence of those who came before them. In this book extract Alice Pung

What makes a sequel work? Vince Gilligan’s portrait of the legal shyster proves there is life beyond Breaking Bad