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24.01.2022 Budding podcastres and those who want to get their voice out there, there is a fantastic opportunity https://artsupperhunter.com/frequency_initiative_for_arts_/ This initiative, known as Frequency, is a new $240,000 podcast program from Create NSW and Screen NSW in partnership with Audible, the world’s largest producer and provider of original spoken word entertainment and audiobooks Frequency will support the development of up to eight new Australian stories from established and emerging NSW storytellers across various genres.

22.01.2022 For those of you following the ARA Historical Prize here is the short list: Master of My Fate by Sienna Brown Shepherd by Catherine Jinks Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe ... The overall prize winner will receive $50,000, with an additional $5,000 to be awarded to each of the remaining two shortlisted authors.

20.01.2022 It's Melbourne Cup Day, and Scone is the horse capital of Australia, so we thought it timely to give a literary perspective. Races.com.au tell us that the most popular and highly sought after horse racing book is The History of Australian Thoroughbred Racing. This is a magnificent addition to any collection and is a lively and detailed three-volume manuscript. It's highly sought-after, we're told, fetching high prices. What's your favourite? And if you're a literary punter good luck!

17.01.2022 Who reads aloud? According to the BBC, "Most adults retreat into a personal, quiet world inside their heads when they are reading, but we may be missing out on some vital benefits when we do this." Thoughts, peeps?

16.01.2022 In recognition of NAIDOC week we share, thanks to Better Reading, a recommended reading list focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, histories and cultures. Do share your favourite. #NAIDOCWeek2020

16.01.2022 On International Day of Rural Women, we celebrate all the fabulous rural writers, particularly those here in the Upper Hunter. We salute past and present writers, including the late Barbara Baynton. From Gundy, Barbara was an author of the same period as Henry Lawson and was part the Bush Realism School of the 1890s fostered by the Sydney Bulletin. A pioneer in feminist literature, Baynton was successful businesswoman, a campaigner for women’s rights, and a renowned socialite.

15.01.2022 The shortlist for the 2020 Victorian Premier’s History Award and Community History Awards has been announced. Here they are: The Convent: A City Finds its Heart (Stuart Kells, MUP) Out of the Madhouse: From Asylums to Caring Community? (Sandy Jeffs and Margaret Leggatt, Australian Scholarly Publishing)... Democratic Adventurer: Graham Berry and the Making of Australian Politics (Sean Scalmer, Monash University Publishing) Maurice Blackburn: Champion of the People (David Day, Scribe) Gariwerd: An Environmental History of the Grampians (Benjamin Wilkie, CSIRO Publishing) Geelong’s Changing Landscape: Ecology, Development and Conservation (David S Jones and Philip B Roös, CSIRO Publishing).

14.01.2022 'Tis the season - more prize announcements. This time, the longlist for history - well, historical novels. Here is the list: Longlisted entries include: Master of My Fate by Sienna Brown (Penguin Books Australia)... Bodies of Men by Nigel Featherstone (Hachette Australia) Shepherd by Catherine Jinks (Text Publishing) Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe (University of Queensland Press) The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith (Allen & Unwin Australia) Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas (Allen & Unwin Australia) The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (Affirm Press) The Yield by Tara June Winch (Penguin Books Australia) See more

14.01.2022 Victoria scoops the pool - all five shortlisted books(out of 800) are from our neighbours down south. They are: ‘The Boy Who Wept Rabbits’ by Benjamin Forbes ‘Petrichor’ by Aisling Smith ‘Meddies’ by Kerry Jewell... ‘Flaring Out’ by Scott Limbrick ‘Cities of Refuge’ by Mark Hennessy See more

11.01.2022 As Alex Shephard writes, "The last five years have been tumultuous for the Nobel Prize" beset by scandal and controversy. In this post written for The New Republic, Shephard ponders who will win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. There are three Chinese writers listed in the betting odds. Here they are: Maryse Conde (Guadeloupean novelist; 41 odds)... Ngg wa Thiong’o (Kenyan novelist and perennial Nobel bridesmaid; 81 odds) Yan Lianke (Chinese novelist and short story writer; 121 odds) Can Xue (Chinese literary critic and short story writer; 161 odds) Yu Hua (Chinese experimental writer, 201 odds) See more

10.01.2022 Hello SLF community. Our news. The Patrick White Oration will be held on March 13, 2021. The next Festival will be March 2022. Watch this space for more big news very soon. You'll want to jump in and grab tickets very quickly for the next PWO.

09.01.2022 Who knew it? November is Novella month. Thanks to our friend, Lisa Hill at ANZ LitLovers for keeping us up to date with all things literary. In recognition of #NovellasinNovember there is a review of Mother Tongue, which Lisa describes as "an extraordinary book." And despite the general theme of the book - seems to be one of a heinous crime - it has, according to Lisa, an "utterly surprising, and a stroke of unexpected genius, is the beautiful ending." It is highly recommended. Do share your thoughts if you've read it.

08.01.2022 Shokoofeh Azar, guest at the 2019 Festival has been nominated for the US National Book Award, for best translated book - The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, translated from Persian. We wish her well. Shokoofeh was also longlisted for the Booker. We do attract the best authors to our fabulous, big, little festival!

08.01.2022 You have to admire the American Library Association. Each year it dutifully tracks hundreds of little acts of domestic suppression taking place all over the country, and publishes a list: The Top 10 Most Challenged Books. The Washington Post says this: "Part lament and part celebration, the list is a call to arms for book lovers, but it’s also an electrocardiogram of our nation’s troubled heart." The Handmaid’s Tale made the list as did the Harry Potter series! What are the most challenging books you have read?

04.01.2022 A big claim from author Steve Erickson, who says right now history is outpacing the imagination and writing definitely needs to get bigger. What are your thoughts?

03.01.2022 Drum Roll: And the winner is Apologia, by Michalia Arathimos for 2020 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award. Patrick White 2019 Orator and author, Christos Tsiolkas declares Apologia, ‘a treasure’ and says Arathimos has ‘a born writer’s talent for creating captivating stories and lives.’ Who has read it? Anyone?

02.01.2022 Drum Roll! The biggest of them all - the Nobel Prize for Literature has been announced and it goes to a poet, American Louise Glück. A huge congratulations to Louise, a former poet laureate of the United States. And yet again, the pundits were wrong. Gluck wasn't even on the betting list we shared earlier in the week. As LitHub says, "the prize is rarely obvious." The prize committee cited Glück’s unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.

01.01.2022 A lovely sequence of reading images. Enjoy.