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Shaken staff and an author exodus: how a picture book plunged an acclaimed Australian publisher into a crisis over antisemitism

The cancellation of Jazz Money’s children’s book Bila, A River Cycle over comments by the book’s illustrator, Matt Chun, has led to the publisher’s potential collapse

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University of Queensland Press cancels children’s book over illustrator’s post on ‘Zionist framing’ of Bondi attack

Authors including Evelyn Araluen and Melissa Lucashenko say they won’t work with publisher after it dumps Jazz Money’s book illustrated by Matt Chun, who called Bondi victims ‘affluent beneficiaries of imperialism’

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Grim, funny and unremitting, Evelyn Araluen’s The Rot is a book attuned to dark times

“Girly, there’s something rotten in your keep cup,” Evelyn Araluen writes in Girl Work!, a poem in her new collection, The Rot.

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Life ‘out of nowhere’ at the ‘scraping of midnight’: two illustrious poets illuminate the times

As a way to gather poetry from across a career, a “selected” is not as unwieldy or as final-sounding as a “complete” or “collected” edition. The even more popular “new and selected” helps old poems reach a new audience, while offering established readers some of the poet’s latest work.

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Taming the machine: should the technological revolution be regulated – and can it be?

Back in 2005 – before the rise of social media or smart phones, let alone blockchain, metadata and OpenAI – computer scientist and entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil published a breathlessly prophetic account of what he called “the singularity”.

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Debut poet Grace Yee wins $125,000 for ‘feminist vision’ at Victorian premier’s literary awards

Yee won the Victorian prize for literature and the poetry category for her collection Chinese Fish, while Melissa Lukashenko won the fiction prize

The Guardian - AU

When I was young, I saw my mother as a tyrant. Now I see myself in her photograph

Author Yen-Rong Wong has been hesitant to write about her mother – but as she sees her mother in her own reflection, she’s been forced to reconcile her memories of the past

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Tell Me Again: Amy Thunig's life journey - so far

Lake Macquarie writer Amy Thunig' s memoir, Tell Me Again, publishes November 1 through University of Queensland Press.

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‘Unflinching’: Villawood graphic novel wins book of the year at NSW premier’s literary awards

Safdar Ahmed’s Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System lands top prize and $30,000, alongside books by Tony Birch and Kate Holden

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Refugee advocate Safdar Ahmed wins Book of the Year with graphic novel Still Alive at NSW Premier's Literary Awards

Artist, writer and educator Safdar Ahmed has won Book of the Year and the Multicultural NSW Award at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards for Still Alive.

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