Magazine

With growing calls to address the viability of local literature, we asked people across the book industry their thoughts on the pace of Australian publishing.

There’s a watery line between independence and vulnerability for one pensioner in this runner-up of the KYD Flash Fiction Prize 2026.

Éduoard Louis became a literary sensation writing about his violent upbringing in one of France’s poorest regions. Two new books beg the question: will he ever escape that tumultuous past?

Tragedy or UFO encounter? The 1978 disappearance of pilot Frederick Valentich is brought to vivid life in this new short story.

Tuesday I went downstairs to meet with Jackson, my cousin, a man I hadn’t seen for a long time. I had been living by myself in the city, far away from the life he’d been part of, and he was in town that night for a reason I never learned. There’s a reason I haven’t mentioned him much. I don’t like to dwell on Jackson.

Local writers are refusing to give up on creatively fulfilling lives.

A room of one’s own is hard won in this runner-up of the KYD Flash Fiction Prize 2026, a new work by the author of the First Nations classic, Bitin’ Back.

A recent article on Australian literature’s ‘moral hygiene’ finds familiar scapegoats for the publishing industry’s problems.

Fourteen authors tackle the question of literature’s big disrupter. Featuring Ellena Savage, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Steve MinOn and more.

Chase love through the past, present and future in ‘Devilled Eggs at the End of the World’.

Read the winning story ‘Devilled Eggs at the End of the World’ by Rosie Forrest—a journey through time that explores what matters most in the giant scheme of things.

Meet the ten stories in contention.

An interview with legendary editor Hilary McPhee.