Writers
The literary record: the poets and novelists, the bush ballads and the arguments about them, the little magazines, the prizes and the manuscripts. Includes writers who left and kept writing about the place from elsewhere.
Part of Australia
154 moments in this segment.
- - Marcus Clarke in riding gear. 1866. He arrived in Victoria from London at seventeen and worked on a station before turning to journalism.
- - Marcus Clarke. 1880. His novel For the Term of His Natural Life, serialised from 1870, fixed the convict system in Australian fiction.
- - Illustration for The Teams. An illustration for Lawson's poem The Teams. Bullock teams and the men who drove them were standard subject matter for the Bulletin school of writing.
- - Paterson around 1890. Paterson photographed around 1890, the year The Man from Snowy River appeared in the Bulletin. He published under the pen name The Banjo, taken from a station racehorse.
- - Mary Gilmore in 1891. 1902 and wrote for six more decades.
- - Seven Little Australians manuscript. A page of the Seven Little Australians manuscript. Turner wrote it in her twenties and it was published in London in 1894.
- - Longstaff portrait of Lawson. John Longstaff's portrait of Henry Lawson, painted in 1900. Longstaff also painted the Archibald Prize winning portrait of Lawson in 1925, after the writer's death.
- - Paterson with his family. Paterson with his wife Alice and daughter Grace in the early twentieth century. He married Alice Walker at Tenterfield in 1903.
- - Lawson drawn by Will Dyson. Will Dyson's 1908 drawing of Henry Lawson. Lawson was deaf from adolescence and his hearing loss shaped both his isolation and his ear for reported speech.
- - Edward Dyson. The poet and short story writer Edward Dyson in 1908. He wrote about mining and factory work, subjects the bush school largely left out.
- - Advertisement in the Bulletin, 1909. An advertisement from the Bulletin of 8 April 1909. The magazine, founded in 1880, published Lawson and Paterson and carried the masthead slogan Australia for the White Man until 1961.
- - Banjo Paterson. Andrew Barton Paterson, known as Banjo. He worked as a solicitor and a war correspondent as well as writing The Man from Snowy River and Waltzing Matilda.
- - Joseph Furphy. 1903, it is a difficult and admired novel that sold almost nothing in his lifetime.
- - A Lawson poem in print. A Lawson poem as it appeared in print in 1914. Newspapers and magazines, not books, were how most Australians met poetry.
- - Henry Lawson. 1915. He wrote The Drover's Wife and While the Billy Boils, argued in the Bulletin with Banjo Paterson over whether the bush was romantic or brutal, and died in poverty in Sydney in 1922.
- - Angus and Robertson in 1915. The Angus and Robertson bookshop in 1915. The firm published Lawson, Paterson and most of the Australian canon of the period, and its Sydney shop was the trade's centre.
- - The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke. 1915, it sold in tens of thousands and was filmed in 1918.
- - Mackellar in 1918. Dorothea Mackellar photographed in 1918. Her poem My Country was published as Core of My Heart before it acquired its familiar title.
- - Myrtle Rose White. 's accounts of station life form a substantial Australian nonfiction strand.
- - Norman Lindsay. 1921. He wrote and illustrated The Magic Pudding in 1918 and was better known as a painter and etcher whose work was repeatedly censored.
- - Lindsay cartoon in the Bulletin. A Norman Lindsay cartoon in the Bulletin of 27 October 1921. Lindsay drew for the magazine for half a century.
- - Henry Lawson's funeral. 1922. He was given a state funeral, having spent his last years in poverty and repeatedly imprisoned for debt and drunkenness.
- - Eleanor Dark. 1922. Her novel The Timeless Land of 1941 told the first years of the colony from both British and Aboriginal viewpoints, unusually for its date.
- - Dorothea Mackellar. 1927. She wrote the poem beginning I love a sunburnt country in 1904 while homesick in England, and it became the most quoted verse in Australia.
- - Ethel Turner. 1928. Her Seven Little Australians of 1894 is among the few nineteenth century Australian children's books never to have gone out of print.
- - Paterson in 1930. Banjo Paterson in 1930. His verse sold in numbers no Australian poet had reached before, and The Man from Snowy River collection went through repeated editions.
- - Page from Darlinghurst Nights. A page from Darlinghurst Nights, Kenneth Slessor's verse with drawings by Virgil Reilly, published in 1933. Slessor wrote Five Bells about a friend who drowned in Sydney Harbour.
- - Inside Angus and Robertson, 1946. Inside Angus and Robertson on Castlereagh Street in Sydney in 1946. The firm operated as publisher and bookseller together, which gave it unusual reach over Australian writing.
- - Dymphna Cusack. 1947. She wrote Come In Spinner with Florence James, a novel of wartime Sydney that a newspaper prize committee tried to have altered before publication.
- - Mary Gilmore. 1948. She wrote for the Australian Worker for over twenty years, joined the utopian New Australia settlement in Paraguay in the 1890s, and appears on the Australian ten dollar note.
- - Dulcie Deamer. 1950. She was a novelist and a central figure of the Sydney bohemian scene around Kings Cross in the 1920s.
- - June Wright. The crime novelist June Wright in a library in 1952. She wrote detective fiction while raising six children and was for a time the best selling crime writer in Australia.
- - Oodgeroo Noonuccal in 1970. Oodgeroo Noonuccal in Sydney in 1970. A Noonuccal woman from Minjerribah, she published We Are Going in 1964, the first book of poetry published by an Aboriginal writer in Australia.
- - Bill Rosser at the John Oxley Library. The writer Bill Rosser at the John Oxley Library in Brisbane in 1991. He recorded Aboriginal oral histories in Queensland, including accounts of the Native Police.
- - Angus and Robertson store. An Angus and Robertson shop in the 2000s. The chain passed through several owners and its retail arm collapsed into administration in 2011.
- - Combo Waterhole. The Combo Waterhole near Winton in Queensland, one of the places identified with the billabong of Waltzing Matilda. The identification is traditional rather than documented.
- - Angus and Robertson at Albury. An Angus and Robertson shop in a former bank building at Albury. The chain reached regional towns across eastern Australia.
- - Oodgeroo Noonuccal quotation in sculpture. A sculpture at the University of Queensland carrying a quotation from Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Her work is now set on school syllabuses across the country.
- - The Magic Pudding. A copy of The Magic Pudding. Lindsay wrote it, by his own account, to settle an argument about whether children preferred fairies or food.
- - Katharine Susannah Prichard. 1920s. A founding member of the Communist Party of Australia, she wrote Coonardoo and Working Bullocks.
- - Louise Mack. 1914 and claimed to be the first woman war correspondent at that front.
- - Shaun Tan: What about Australia children's literature?. Shaun Tan discusses Australian children's literature. His wordless book The Arrival deals with migration and won international awards.
- - David Malouf talks about the pursuit of happiness. David Malouf discusses the pursuit of happiness on ABC. Born in Brisbane to a Lebanese Christian father and an English Jewish mother, he wrote Johnno, An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon.
- - Lawson's birthplace monument, Grenfell. The monument marking Henry Lawson's birthplace at Grenfell in New South Wales. He was born on the goldfields there in 1867.
- - 'Post reconciliation novel' wins Miles Franklin. ABC News reports a novel described as post reconciliation winning the Miles Franklin. The award goes to a work presenting Australian life in any of its phases.
- - Tim Winton becomes a playwright. ABC News covers Tim Winton turning to playwriting. His novel Cloudstreet has been adapted for stage and television.
- - Treasures Gallery. ABC News on the National Library's Treasures Gallery. The gallery rotates manuscripts and rare items that cannot be displayed permanently.
- - Our Children's Literature Research Collection. State Library Victoria on its children's literature research collection. Libraries hold the bulk of surviving Australian first editions and manuscripts.
- - Thomas Keneally on his love for books. 's Ark, which won the Booker Prize in 1982 and became the film Schindler's List.
- - Library momentos shine light on White's life. ABC News covers library items shedding light on Patrick White. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, the only Australian writer to have done so.
- - A Sea Adventure Wins Best Book. ABC News covers an Australian sea adventure winning a best book award. The Children's Book Council of Australia awards have run since 1946.
- - Sydney Writers' Festival begins. ABC News covers the opening of the Sydney Writers' Festival. Australian capital cities each run a large annual literary festival.
- - Tim Winton reflects on how Albany shaped his life. Tim Winton reflects on how Albany in Western Australia shaped him. He has won the Miles Franklin Award four times.
- - Waltzing Matilda manuscript. The Waltzing Matilda manuscript held by the National Library of Australia. Paterson wrote the words at Dagworth Station in western Queensland in 1895, and the song's origins and the fate of its swagman are still argued over.
- - Writer Thomas Keneally. Thomas Keneally in conversation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He also wrote The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, filmed by Fred Schepisi in 1978.
- - Top author wins first Queensland award. ABC News reports the first Queensland literary award going to a novelist. State literary awards were cut and later restored in Queensland after a public campaign.
- - Paterson bust at Binalong. A bust of Banjo Paterson at Binalong in New South Wales, near where he spent part of his childhood. Country towns claim their writers with monuments.
- - Richard Flanagan at a library talk. Richard Flanagan speaking at a Sydney library in 2013. He won the Man Booker Prize the following year for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about Australian prisoners of war on the Burma railway.
- - Five Bells. A film treatment of Five Bells held by the National Film and Sound Archive. Slessor wrote the elegy in 1939 about the death of Joe Lynch in the harbour.
- - 100 readers - Peter Carey. Peter Carey in a State Library Victoria reader series. Carey won the Booker Prize twice, in 1988 and 2001, and has lived in New York for decades.
- - Portrait Story: Patrick White. The National Portrait Gallery tells the story of its portrait of Patrick White. He wrote Voss, The Tree of Man and Riders in the Chariot, and used his Nobel money to found a prize for older unrecognised writers.
- - John Schumann - Waltzing Matilda (Official Music Video). John Schumann's recording of Waltzing Matilda for ABC Music. The song has never been the national anthem but functions as an unofficial one.
- - Poetry reading by Les A Murray AO. A poetry reading by Les Murray at the University of Sydney. Murray was raised on a dairy farm at Bunyah in New South Wales and became the most internationally read Australian poet of his generation.
- - David Malouf interviewed by Tegan Bennett Daylight | Sydney Writers' Festival. David Malouf interviewed at the Sydney Writers' Festival. The festival has run annually since 1998 and is the largest literary gathering in Australia.
- - University of Sydney at the Sydney Writers' Festival. The University of Sydney at the Sydney Writers' Festival. Universities and libraries underwrite much of the Australian literary sector.
- - Richard Flanagan wins Man Booker Prize 2014: in 60 seconds. Richard Flanagan wins the Man Booker Prize in 2014 for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about Australian prisoners of war on the Burma railway. His father was a survivor of that railway.
- - Peter Carey | Jan 22 2015 | Appel. Peter Carey in conversation at a public library. His novel True History of the Kelly Gang is written in the voice of Ned Kelly and won the Booker in 2001.
- - Interview with David Malouf and Karina Carvalho. David Malouf in conversation at the Museum of Brisbane. His first novel Johnno drew directly on the Brisbane of his childhood.
- - Imagining Ned Kelly: Interview with Peter Carey. Peter Carey discusses imagining Ned Kelly, for Victorian Collections. Kelly has been the subject of Australian novels, paintings and films since the 1890s.
- - Aboriginal Studies Press bookshop. The Aboriginal Studies Press bookshop, the publishing arm of AIATSIS in Canberra. The press publishes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors and research.
- - Browsing at Aboriginal Studies Press. Browsing at the Aboriginal Studies Press shop. AIATSIS is the national institution for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies and holds the protocols much of this work runs on.
- - The Man From Snowy River (Live). Jack Thompson recites The Man from Snowy River. Paterson published the poem in the Bulletin in 1890 and its rhythm made it a standard for public recitation.
- - Les A Murray Poetry Reading - Part 1. A further Les Murray reading recorded at the University of Sydney. He died in 2019.
- - Henry and Banjo: History In The Making. A segment on Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. Their Bulletin exchange of 1892 and 1893 set the terms for how Australians wrote about the bush.
- - √ The Analysis of Kenneth Slessor’s Poetry, the Australian Poem Explained. An analysis of Kenneth Slessor's poetry. His Five Bells, written after a friend drowned in Sydney Harbour, is among the most anthologised Australian poems.
- - Portrait Story | David Malouf by Rick Amor. The National Portrait Gallery on Rick Amor's portrait of David Malouf. Malouf has written poetry, fiction and opera libretti.
- - Leah Purcell: 'Music is just magic.'. ABC Arts speaks with Leah Purcell, a Goa, Gunggari and Wakka Wakka writer and performer who reworked The Drover's Wife as play, novel and film.
- - Leah Purcell: 'Storytelling is in my blood.'. Leah Purcell on storytelling. She wrote and directed her own adaptation after performing in Australian theatre and television for years.
- - State Library of NSW presents Libby Hathorn's Poets of Australia: C.J. Dennis. The State Library of New South Wales on the poet C.J. Dennis, whose Songs of a Sentimental Bloke of 1915 sold in enormous numbers in Australia.
- - State Library of NSW presents Libby Hathorn's Poets of Australia: Dorothea Mackellar. The State Library of New South Wales presents the poetry of Dorothea Mackellar. Her poem My Country, with the line about a sunburnt country, was written in 1904 while she was homesick in England.
- - Waltzing Matilda. The Australian War Memorial's recording of Waltzing Matilda. Australian troops sang it in both world wars, which is part of why it carries the weight it does.
- - Fullers Bookshop, Hobart. Fullers Bookshop in Hobart, trading since 1920. Independent bookshops survived the chain collapse better than the chains did.
- - State Library Victoria collection. A painting held at State Library Victoria. The library, founded in 1854, holds the Ned Kelly armour as well as its manuscript and picture collections.
- - Tim Winton laments the power of toxic masculinity on young men | Matter of Fact. Tim Winton on the effect of toxic masculinity on young men, for ABC's Matter of Fact. His novels are set almost entirely on the Western Australian coast.
- - Australia is gripped by misogyny, says author Tim Winton. ABC News reports Tim Winton arguing that Australia is gripped by misogyny. Winton has campaigned on coastal conservation as well as writing fiction.
- - A real history of Aboriginal Australians, the first agriculturalists | Bruce Pascoe | TEDxSydney. Bruce Pascoe presents the argument of Dark Emu at a TEDx event. Historians including Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe have published a book length rebuttal of parts of the case.
- - The Skin of Others: when Douglas Grant met Henry Lawson. Guardian Australia on the meeting between Henry Lawson and Douglas Grant, an Aboriginal man raised by a Scottish family who served in the First World War. The story complicates the bush legend Lawson helped build.
- - PT3 Sarah Peirse on the playwriting of Patrick White. An actor discusses Patrick White's playwriting for Sydney Theatre Company. His plays were poorly received in the 1960s and revived decades later.
- - Alexis Wright on censorship and telling the untold stories. Alexis Wright speaks at State Library Victoria on censorship and untold stories. Her novel Praiseworthy won the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin in 2024.
- - Bruce Pascoe, author | Australia to Me | ABC Australia. ABC introduces the author Bruce Pascoe. His book Dark Emu argued that Aboriginal people practised agriculture and aquaculture, and it has been both influential and contested by other researchers.
- - Snugglepot and Cuddlepie Behind the Scenes for Vivid Sydney 2018. Behind the scenes on a Vivid Sydney projection of May Gibbs's Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. Gibbs built her gumnut characters from Australian botany rather than European fairy tale.
- - Australian troops sing waltzing matilda while marching in ww2. Australian troops singing Waltzing Matilda while marching in the Second World War. The swagman of the song is a sheep stealer who drowns rather than surrender.
- - Lawson plaque, Sydney Writers Walk. Henry Lawson's plaque on the Sydney Writers Walk at Circular Quay. The walk sets brass plaques for Australian writers into the pavement along the harbour.
- - Paterson plaque, Sydney Writers Walk. Banjo Paterson's plaque on the Sydney Writers Walk. He and Lawson are the two names most Australians can supply if asked for a national poet.
- - Oodgeroo Noonuccal plaque. Oodgeroo Noonuccal's plaque on the Sydney Writers Walk. She returned her MBE in 1987 and took her Noonuccal name in place of the name Kath Walker.
- - Slessor plaque at Circular Quay. Kenneth Slessor's plaque at Circular Quay, near the harbour water his best known poem is about. He was also an official war correspondent in the Second World War.
- - David Malouf. 2019. Born in Brisbane to a Lebanese Christian father and an English Jewish mother, he wrote Johnno, An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon.
- - Judith Wright plaque. Judith Wright's plaque on the Sydney Writers Walk. She was a poet and a campaigner on conservation and Aboriginal land rights, and helped found the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland.
- - Xavier Herbert plaque. Xavier Herbert's plaque at Circular Quay. His Capricornia of 1938 and the enormous Poor Fellow My Country of 1975 both deal with race in the Northern Territory.
- - Eleanor Dark plaque. Eleanor Dark's plaque on the Writers Walk. Her house at Katoomba in the Blue Mountains is now a writers residence.
- - Peter Carey plaque. Peter Carey's plaque on the Sydney Writers Walk. He won the Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda and in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang.
- - Australia's Aboriginal Writers: 2019 National Book Festival. A panel on Aboriginal Australian writers presented at the 2019 National Book Festival. Aboriginal authors now win most of the major Australian literary prizes.
- - Australian writer and broadcaster Clive James dies aged 80 | ABC News. ABC News reports the death of Clive James. His memoir Unreliable Memoirs covers a Sydney childhood in the 1940s and 1950s.
- - Clive James opens up about his battle with cancer | 7.30. Clive James discusses his illness on ABC's 7.30. He continued publishing poetry and criticism throughout his final decade.
- - Clive James reads his farewell poem, Japanese Maple | ABC News. Clive James reads Japanese Maple, the poem he wrote knowing he was dying. It was published in 2014 and he lived another five years.
- - Clive James - writer, broadcaster, poet - dead at 80 | 7.30. ABC's 7.30 marks the death of Clive James in 2019 at the age of 80. Born in Sydney, he built a career in Britain as a critic, broadcaster and poet.
- - The Drover's Wife. An archival treatment of The Drover's Wife. The story is among the most reworked in Australian literature, in fiction, painting and film.
- - Bookshop at Red Hill. A bookshop at Red Hill in Brisbane. Second hand and specialist shops carry much of the out of print Australian backlist.
- - SCOOP Episode 113, 1982 - Aboriginal Poetry. A 1982 National Archives item on Aboriginal poetry. Publication by Aboriginal writers grew sharply from the 1960s onward.
- - Henry Lawson- The Ballad of the Drover read by Thundercloud. A recital of Lawson's The Ballad of the Drover. Lawson and Banjo Paterson conducted a public argument in the Bulletin over whether the bush was romantic or brutal.
- - Endeavour: Conservation of a Logbook. The State Library of New South Wales conserves a logbook from the Endeavour voyage. Manuscript conservation is slow physical work on paper and ink.
- - Australian Literature: Representation and identity. A university lecture on Australian literature, representation and identity. Australian literature became a taught university subject relatively late.
- - The Man From Snowy River By A B Banjo Paterson Australian Bush Ballad Rare 45 rpm Vinyl. A rare recording of The Man from Snowy River presented as an Australian bush ballad. The bush ballad tradition circulated orally and in newspapers before it was collected in books.
- - The Man from Snowy River by Banjo Patterson. A reading of The Man from Snowy River. The poem was adapted into a 1982 film that was among the highest grossing Australian releases of its time.
- - Curator's Choice: Incunabula. A State Library of New South Wales curator on incunabula, books printed before 1501. Australian institutions hold significant early European printing alongside their local collections.
- - Cancelled: The book Australia banned. SBS's The Feed on a book banned in Australia. Australian censorship was among the strictest in the English speaking world until the 1970s.
- - Bringing underrepresented Australian women authors into the spotlight | Art Works. ABC's Art Works on bringing under-recognised Australian women authors back into print. Writers including Christina Stead were long out of print in their own country.
- - Song Of Hope by Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Geoff Whitehead. A setting of Song of Hope by Oodgeroo Noonuccal, a Noonuccal woman from Minjerribah. Her 1964 collection We Are Going was the first book of poetry published by an Aboriginal writer in Australia.
- - Peter Carey wins The Booker Prize with 'True History of the Kelly Gang' (2001) | The Booker Prize. The Booker Prizes mark Peter Carey's 2001 win for True History of the Kelly Gang. Australian writers have taken the Booker several times.
- - Deadly Dialogues | Deborah Cheetham. The National Library of Australia's Deadly Dialogues series with the Yorta Yorta soprano and composer Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, who has also written for the stage.
- - Henry Lawson's Life and Legacy: Lessons from an Iconic Poet. An account of the life and legacy of Henry Lawson. Lawson wrote The Drover's Wife and While the Billy Boils, and died in poverty in Sydney in 1922.
- - Finding Our Heart ❤️💛🖤 Read by Tony Armstrong 📚🧸 | Play School Story Time | ABC Kids. Play School reads Finding Our Heart, a children's book about the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Children's publishing has become a route for First Nations storytelling.
- - Norman Lindsay on how he wrote The Magic Pudding (FULL INTERVIEW). Norman Lindsay explains how he wrote The Magic Pudding, published in 1918 and still in print. Lindsay was better known as a painter and etcher, and much of his other work was censored.
- - Discovery Video | Building Art of the National Library of Australia. A tour of the building art of the National Library of Australia, opened in 1968 on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin.
- - How to: Discovering the history of your hometown. The National Library of Australia explains how to research a hometown's history. Library research guides are a significant public service alongside the collections.
- - Digitisation at the National Library. Digitisation work at the National Library of Australia. The library's Trove service put digitised Australian newspapers online and changed how the country's history is researched.
- - Bookshop at Queenstown. A bookshop at Queenstown in western Tasmania. Small town bookselling survives in places with no other retail culture.
- - Dymocks in Adelaide. A Dymocks store in Adelaide. Dymocks began in Sydney in 1879 and is the largest surviving Australian owned book chain.
- - Campus bookshop at the ANU. Inside a campus bookshop at the Australian National University. University shops are where most Australian scholarly publishing reaches readers.
- - J.M. Coetzee. 2023. Born in South Africa and a Nobel laureate, he became an Australian citizen in 2006 and has lived in Adelaide since.
- - Getting started at the National Library. An orientation to the National Library of Australia in Canberra. It holds legal deposit copies of Australian publications.
- - Alexis Wright: Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature | Arts Week. Alexis Wright receives a Creative Australia award for lifetime achievement in literature. A Waanyi woman from the Gulf of Carpentaria, she won the Miles Franklin for Carpentaria in 2007.
- - The Story Behind Waltzing Matilda: Banjo Paterson on the $10 note. The story behind Waltzing Matilda and Banjo Paterson's appearance on the ten dollar note. Paterson wrote the words at Dagworth Station in Queensland in 1895.
- - The Drover's Wife: A Short Story by Henry Lawson 1892. A reading of The Drover's Wife, Henry Lawson's 1892 story of a woman alone in a bush hut with a snake and her children. Leah Purcell later retold it from an Aboriginal woman's position.
- - Melissa Lucashenko on busting colonial myths in her sweeping novel 'Edenglassie' | The SBS Book Club. Melissa Lucashenko on writing against colonial myths in Edenglassie, which sets its story in nineteenth century Brisbane and the present day.
- - Inside the Hill of Content
- - Hill of Content bookshop. The Hill of Content bookshop on Bourke Street in Melbourne, open since 1922. Melbourne was designated a UNESCO City of Literature in 2008.
- - Metropolis Bookshop, Melbourne. The Metropolis Bookshop in Melbourne. Independent shops of this kind carry the Australian small press output that chains do not stock.
- - Ethel Turner - Live the Day! 130th Anniversary of 'Seven Little Australians' - Interviews. A marking of 130 years of Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner, published in 1894. It is one of the few nineteenth century Australian children's books never out of print.
- - Welcome to the State Library of NSW. An introduction to the State Library of New South Wales, founded in 1826 and the oldest library in Australia according to the library.
- - Helen Garner's love letter to her grandson, and football | ABC Conversations Podcast. Helen Garner in conversation on ABC about her grandson and football. Her 1977 novel Monkey Grip drew on Melbourne share house life and caused a stir over how directly it used her own diaries.
- - Melissa Lucashenko: Edenglassie. Melissa Lucashenko discusses Edenglassie at the State Library of New South Wales. A Goorie writer, she won the Miles Franklin for Too Much Lip in 2019.
- - My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin , Full Story Summary | Feminist Classic Explained. A summary of My Brilliant Career, the novel Miles Franklin wrote as a teenager in rural New South Wales. She withdrew it from publication for decades, embarrassed that readers took it as autobiography.
- - Sydney Writers Festival appearance. An author appearing at the Sydney Writers Festival. The festival has run annually since 1998 and is the largest literary event in the country.
- - National Library bookshop. The bookshop at the National Library of Australia in Canberra. The library holds legal deposit copies of everything published in Australia.
- - The History of Book Week - Behind the News. Behind the News explains the history of Book Week, run by the Children's Book Council of Australia since 1945.
- - Cloudstreet | Explained. An explanation of Cloudstreet, Winton's 1991 novel about two families sharing a house in Perth. It won the Miles Franklin Award and is widely taught in Australian schools.
- - Indian Diaspora in Australia Collection: Collecting and sharing stories. The National Library collects and shares stories of the Indian diaspora in Australia. Community collecting has broadened what the national collection contains.
- - Author Helen Garner is fascinated with the mushroom murders | 7.30. Helen Garner on ABC's 7.30 discussing a criminal trial. Much of her later work is court reporting written as literary nonfiction.
- - Michael Bennett and the Dharriwaa Elders Council: Towards an Aboriginal history of Walgett. The State Library of New South Wales hosts a discussion on writing an Aboriginal history with the Dharriwaa Elders Council at Walgett. The work was done with community direction rather than about the community.
- - National Library of Australia reveals its treasures with new exhibition | ABC NEWS. ABC News covers a National Library of Australia exhibition of its treasures. The library holds the Trove newspaper digitisation programme.
- - Nature Writing Prize: Tim Winton Keynote | RMIT University. Tim Winton delivers a keynote for a nature writing prize at RMIT University. Australian nature writing has grown into a substantial category of its own.
- - Banjo Paterson , Author of Waltzing Matilda & The Man from Snowy River. An account of Banjo Paterson, author of Waltzing Matilda and The Man from Snowy River. He worked as a solicitor and a war correspondent as well as writing verse.
- - Miles Franklin: The woman behind My Brilliant Career | The Dead Can't Sue. ABC follows the life of Stella Miles Franklin, who published My Brilliant Career in 1901 at the age of twenty one under a male sounding name. She left a bequest that founded the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1957.