Cirrus@Austlit

'The shortlist for The Stella Prize for writing by women has this year been dominated by small publishers, with five of the six titles published by independent outfits.' (Article summary)

'For a debut feature film made on a microbudget, Strange Colours is courting an impressive amount of industry buzz.'  (Introduction)

'At 37, Tony Albert is the youngest person to have a major solo exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery.' 

'Going Down, premiering at the Sydney Theatre Company this month, is the tale of a young woman who is trying to tell her story honestly, failing miserably and getting very confused along the way.'  (Introduction)

'In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, five gaunt young women — strangers to each other — presented at a Manhattan hospital with the same symptoms: their throats were constricted and they couldn't swallow.'  (Introduction)

I'n 2011 at an International Women's Day event in Melbourne, the panel of female authors, publishers and literary journalists noted that over the entirety of its 55-year run, only 10 women had been awarded the Miles Franklin, widely considered to be Australia's most prestigious literary award.'  (Introduction)

'"How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?"

'This is the opening line of Alexis Wright's book Tracker, which has won the 2018 Stella Prize for Australian women's writing.' (Introduction)

'Ara, the protagonist of Adriane Daff's play Era of New Paradise, is a YouTube sensation and a cult survivor.'

'To mark its eighth year of operation, the Wheeler Centre is this week launching The Next Chapter: a funding initiative designed to "scale up" the centre's impact on the literary scene in this country and foster a new generation of writers.' 

'Twenty two-year-old Sydney-born Melbourne-based writer and performer Kim Ho has won this year's Patrick White Playwrights' Award, announced at a ceremony at Sydney's Roslyn Packer Theatre on Monday night — where his winning play, Mirror's Edge, also received a rehearsed reading.'

'This year's longlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award features three previous winners — Michelle de Kretser, Peter Carey, and Kim Scott — alongside eight other established writers.' 

'"Your white meat is DONE, motherf***er!" The words, growled by an unseen protagonist, echo around Sydney Theatre Company's Wharf 2 theatre.'