Felicity Castagna on new faces and old
The turnback of the Tampa marked a sea change in national politics and inspired the writer's new work of fiction.
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Linda Morris
Linda Morris is an arts and books writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Stories of love, endurance woven together
A tapestry designed and made with the help of 200 refugees tells a different tale to the one we hear.
Tragicomic bromance wins humour writing prize
Steve Toltz was a child when he first started writing funny stories.
Sydney Writers' Festival wrap with robust attendances
A slim volume of poetry written by a Canadian poet who made her name on Instagram outsold all other authors at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival which delivered its second biggest box office takings in 20 years.
Working class man Jimmy Barnes wins book award
Blue-collar singer Jimmy Barnes officially an award-winning author for his memoir.
Take refuge in art not reality TV says writer George Saunders
George Saunders was a passenger on a commercial United Airlines jet that flew into a flock of geese outside of Chicago and almost fell to earth.
Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife takes out Book of the Year
When the indigenous actress and director, Leah Purcell, took out her mother's tattered copy of Henry Lawson's short stories, she had no idea that the script she would bang out in seven days would be named Book of the Year in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Monday night.
Lanagan's fantasy skews fairytales to macabre effect
The Sydney author's elegantly written stories put a darkly macabre spin on fairytales.
Instapoet Rupi Kaur, an internet sensation
"He only whispers I love you as he slips his hands down the waistband of your pants," Rupi Kaur writes.
The 2017 Best Young Australian Novelists
This year's Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelists show a concern for the role of home in their characters' lives.
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