Updates

We’re thrilled to share some news about an SRB project that has been in the works for most of 2021. We’re calling it The Circular, and it will be an aggregator that keeps the best new Australian non-fiction in circulation; essays, interviews, reviews, features and more.

The Circular editor will be responsible for collating a weekly newsletter of the most interesting, useful and surprising recent non-fiction published by and about Australian writers.

The SRB and Cementa Inc. are seeking proposals from regional writers in NSW to develop essays for online publication on the SRB.

Applications for the 2021 JUNCTURE Fellowship program are open until 12 July 2021.

Join us on zoom at 11am on Friday 21 May for an online discussion between Eugen Bacon, Tamryn Bennett, David Carlin and Julienne van Loon on literary value, chaired by SRB’s editor, Catriona Menzies-Pike.

This seminar addresses the changing nature of literary value in 2021, against a movable backdrop of post-COVID Australia. It shares diverse findings from a collaborative project between the Sydney Review of Books and the non/fictionLab at RMIT University in Melbourne. The collaboration seeks to elicit experimental, essayistic approaches to questions of ‘value’ in the literary and cultural sectors.

Announcing the recipients of the 2021 Incubate writers’ residencies, a joint initiative of the SRB and the Bankstown Arts Centre.

Second City is a showcase of the diverse literary talents that make Sydney’s Western Suburbs such a fertile region for writers. It’s an anthology that brings together raconteurs, reporters and polemicists, critics, philosophers and observers of daily life.

We’re thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2021 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowships: Gemma Betros (QLD) Sarah-Jane Burton (ACT) Dan…

The essays will share an ethos of experimentation, of conceptual boldness, of resisting intellectual and creative templates.

Bankstown Arts Centre and the Sydney Review of Books invite applications from Western Sydney writers for residencies of up to six weeks at the Incubate Artists Studios. There are several residencies available for writers who can work on projects onsite in Bankstown between April and September 2021.

We’re celebrating the launch of our new series devoted to the experimental essay at Verge Gallery on Thursday 18 March 6:30pm-8:30pm.

Join us for a screening of two new video works by Kuba Dorabialski and Akil Ahamat, presented in conversation with the artists.