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Publishing longform criticism and essays by Australia's best writers since 2013. Online and in Parramatta.

David Malouf's Surprises: Nicholas Jose on touching and being touched in Malouf’s poetry

Centre for Stories: Pitch Perfect: A Workshop with Dr. James Jiang

I, Was, Am? Nina Culley on zombies and what identity looks like when it’s stripped away

The Fire Dragon, Between Myths and Realities: Quah Ee Ling on the uses of the fire dragon for feminist critique

The Outer Spaces of Fiction: Lauren Collee on writers going boldly where no humans have gone before

SRB 2025 Reader Survey

Fully Lit: a podcast about Australian Writing

Living it Line by Line: Hossein Asgari and Kim Cheng Boey on writing fiction about poets INTERVIEW

The Poet Eaters: Alice Allan and James Jiang on poetry reviewing ten years after ‘The Poet Tasters’ INTERVIEW

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