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The power of words drives change at the Sydney Writers' Festival

The power of words drives change at the Sydney Writers' Festival

Sydney Writers' Festival opens at Carriageworks with a call to find new ways of storytelling.

  • by Linda Morris

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New ways of storytelling needed to challenge unfairness
Sydney Writers' Festival

New ways of storytelling needed to challenge unfairness

Sydney Writers' Festival opens with call to fight conventional power.

  • by Linda Morris
Russia helped Brexit says Boris Johnson's author dad
Sydney Writers' Festival

Russia helped Brexit says Boris Johnson's author dad

British author finds intrigue close to home.

  • by Linda Morris
Stories of ancestral memory storm NSW Premier's Literary Awards
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Stories of ancestral memory storm NSW Premier's Literary Awards

Two virtuoso novels, each exploring the shadows of history, have swept the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

  • by Linda Morris
Weird requests put to punk poet Eileen Myles
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Weird requests put to punk poet Eileen Myles

Writing a memoir about her relationship with a dog has prompted some bizarre book dedications, author Eileen Myles says.

  • by Linda Morris
Sydney Writers' Festival highlights
Sydney Writers' Festival

Sydney Writers' Festival highlights

The Sydney Writer's Festival opens Tuesday. Here's a taste of what to see.

  • by Linda Morris
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Call Me By Your Name writer Andre Aciman on the wine of life
Sydney Writers' Festival

Call Me By Your Name writer Andre Aciman on the wine of life

Andre Aciman found himself thrust unexpectedly into the role of agony aunt after the film adaptation of his novel Call Me By Your Name was released last year.

  • by Melanie Kembrey
Books That Changed Me: Sharlene Teo
Sydney Writers' Festival

Books That Changed Me: Sharlene Teo

Sharlene Teo rereads James Salter's beautiful Light Years to see how poetic and transcendent a novel can be.

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Top 10 books in business

Scott Pape tops the business bestselling charts this week with The Barefoot Investor.

Read: The novel that had me rethinking a common parenting choice
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Read: The novel that had me rethinking a common parenting choice

Entrusting your child to someone else is a giant leap of faith. That's why this book is sending shivers up the spines of parents all over the world.

  • by Nicole Abadee
Home is where the smells are
Sydney Writers' Festival

Home is where the smells are

Though I didn't think much of it at the time, my mother was right about the smells. It is well documented that our senses can cause an involuntary flooding of memory.

  • by Sofija Stefanovic