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Susan Wyndham reports that four of the six shortlisted works for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, are by Australian authors. All six of the shortlisted titles in the Best First Book category are by Australians.
Katrina Lobley reports on Rosie Dennis's research on 'the comfort of strangers and the alchemy of interactions in public places'. Dennis's research is for her show 'Downtown'.