Cirrus@Austlit

'There's a lot of mystery surrounding the book publishing process. But what really happens to the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts that are sent to publishers by wannabe writers? ...'

'This month marks 155 years since the largest massacre of Europeans by Aboriginals, and a turning point in Australia's frontier history so bloody it has been described as warfare. ...'

'Robert Ingpen is a master of the art of getting lost. His meanderings are through the world of his unfettered imagination. ...'

'Boys in the Trees is an Australian coming of age horror film set in 1997 on Halloween, about a group of Adelaide teenagers on the last day of high school. ...'

'Reg Mombassa has been a mainstay in Australian pop culture for more than 40 years, both through his band Mental As Anything and his iconic artworks. He painted his first landscape at just 15 and has developed an intense fascination with both wilderness and buildings ever since. He shares some of his favourite artworks and the inspiration behind them, which appear in a new book The Landscapes of Reg Mombassa. ...'

'A new Australian feature film shot on the far south coast of New South Wales with cast and crew mostly from the local community has spawned a rural filmmaking co-operative. ...'

'Lionel Shriver's opening address to the Brisbane Writers Festival caused quite a stir. She offered up a vigorous defence of the right of fiction writers to utilise the experiences of people of other genders, races, cultures, physical abilities and so on.' (Introduction)