'The peak body for writers in Western Australia says more people in regional areas have been accessing writing services since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.'
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'Kate McCartney applied to be the artist-in-residence at an Australian Antarctic base in 2012. Or at least she thinks it was 2012.'
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'In early 2017, when the legendary actor David Gulpilil was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer and advised that he had only months to live, he told filmmakers Molly Reynolds and Rolf de Heer that he wanted to make one more film.'
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'Has anyone ever given you a sideways glance after learning you listen to audiobooks? If you've picked up on a sense of literary snobbery around reading with your ears, you're far from alone.
"There's sort of a particular form of shame associated with audiobooks; it's all too often perceived as not being real reading," says Matthew Rubery, professor of Modern Literature at Queen Mary University, London.'
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