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Sydney Writers’ Festival Highlights
The Sydney Writers’ Festival launched their 2018 program! Don’t miss events featuring Anita Heiss, Mark McKenna, Richard Denniss, Laura Tingle, Alice Pung, Erik Jensen, Christos Tsiolkas and many more. We’ve compiled some highlights below.
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Call for Submissions: Best Summer Stories
Submissions for Best Summer Stories are now open.
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Black Inc. Awards News – March
The Last Man in Europe, Losing Streak and The Songs of Trees have all recived awards recognition this week.
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Call for Submissions: Growing Up African in Australia
A new anthology is open for submissions from all African Australian writers.
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Benjamin T. Jones on Old Australia and New Australia
This is a transcript of Benjamin T. Jones’ speech at the Sydney launch of his new book, This Time: Australia’s Republican Past and Future.
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This Time: Australia’s Republican Past and Future – Foreword by Peter FitzSimons
This Time: Australia's Republican Past and Future reveals the fascinating early history of the Australian republican movement of the 1850s and charts a path to an independent future.
The below extract is the foreword written by Peter FitzSimons, acclaimed author and Chair of the Australian Republican Movement.
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Between Us Q&A with Clare Atkins #LoveOzYA
‘I was determined that Between Us would not only be the story of a modern day asylum seeker, but one that incorporates the rich and complex history of multiculturalism of Australia, and our changing attitudes towards migrants and refugees.’ —Clare Atkins
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February New Releases
Here are the February new releases from Black Inc. (There's still another month to add to your 17/18 summer reads list!)
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‘Choose a Job You Love and You Will Never Have to Work a Day in Your Life’
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Vale Ken Inglis
Black Inc. mourns the passing of Ken Inglis, one of the great generation of Australian historians.