Mark your calendars!

Dear readers,
 
Thank you for your patience as the team has been hard at work preparing the new website for launch. The good news is that we now have an official launch date: Tuesday, September 17 (AEST). We can’t wait to share with you the fruits of a project we began just over a year ago, and which will set the journal on a new digital footing for a great many years yet (fare thee well, WordPress).
 
What can you expect to find when you log on to Sydney Review of Books on the morning of September 17? Here are some of the things we’re most excited about:
 
→ A bold new homepage design with interactive features showcasing our latest and archival works
→ A lightning-fast search engine with real-time filtering to customise your reading
→ A bookmarking feature so you can save your ‘to-reads’ or pick up where you left off
→ A new site design with easy-to-access information on our fellowships, pitching opportunities, and public events
 
These are just four of the bigger changes you’ll notice as you scroll and click through. But as you spend more time on the site, we hope you’ll also start to appreciate some of the subtler changes to the layout and interface – those smaller ‘quality of life’ improvements that are crucial to streamlining your SRB experience. We’ll leave these for you to discover.
 
None of this would have been possible without the vision and technical nous of the team at Public Websites, who have worked tirelessly alongside the SRB in rebuilding our digital infrastructure from the ground up. You’ll hear from the Public Websites development team on the day of the launch as they explain the principles and insights behind the most significant technical overhaul in the journal’s history.
 
This project has been funded by a grant from Create NSW and we’re incredibly grateful to have been able to undertake this transformative project while remaining open-access. With the new website, we’ll be presenting a different face to our readers, but rest assured that our commitment to publishing the most searching, sophisticated, and stimulating work by Australian critics remains the same.
 
Stay tuned,
The SRB Team