News & Views What to read, watch & hear this week: The Culture Wrap Welcome to The Culture Wrap! This is the second edition of a new Friday feature edited by Jessie Tu, that shares her pick of things to read, hear and watch.
News & Views Tara June Winch wins the Miles Franklin for her book, The Yield: A powerful story of violence & resistance Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch has won the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel The Yield, a story of violence and resistance.
Profiles I wrote a book to make the world feel less lonely “For the first 22 years of my life, I wasn’t encouraged to express what I wanted,” A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing author Jessie Tu writes.
News & Views Charmaine Papertalk Green wins Australian Literary Society gold medal Yamaji woman and writer Charmaine Papertalk Green wins the 2020 Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for her collection of poetry, “Nganajungu Yagu”.
News & Views The alarming erasure of black women in science textbooks Why are fewer women, and even fewer BIPOC women, in the sciences than men? Maybe because we’re not seeing them in our textbooks.
News & Views J.K Rowling releases new children’s book The Ickabog J.K Rowling announced she will serialise an online fairy tale “about truth and the abuse of power” in thirty-four daily, free instalments.
News & Views Tara June Winch takes out three NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Tara June Winch takes out three NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, including People’s Choice, Book of the Year and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.
Books Kate Kruimink takes out the 2020 Vogel Award from all-female shortlist Kate M. Kruimink, a Tasmanian author and writer, has been awarded the 2020 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for her novel ‘A Treacherous Country’.
News & Views Michelle Obama launches virtual story time series for children amid COVID-19 pandemic Michelle Obama kicked off the series on Monday, reading The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axl Scheffler to children online.
News & Views ‘I hope it makes more politicians read the book’: Stella Prize winner Jess Hill Jess Hill won the 2020 Stella Prize and tells Jessie Tu how she sought to undercover the ‘concealed truth’ of domestic abuse in Australia.
News & Views See What You Made Me Do has tragically gained importance in this time While COVID-19 has irrevocably changed the landscape, the relevance of See What You Made Me Do has only, tragically, gained importance in this time.
News & Views Dolly Parton to read bedtime stories to children in new YouTube series Dolly Parton is set to launch a weekly series in which she reads children’s books to online audiences at bedtime.