Updates

Sydney Review of Books and the Bankstown Arts Centre invite applications from Western Sydney and First Nations writers and journalists to document the 2022 Bankstown Biennale, which launches on 8 October 2022. We’re looking for writers and cultural journalists who can undertake reportage-driven projects that document the development of work for the Biennale, spotlight artists and draw out the themes of Sub Terrains 2022.

The Sydney Review of Books invites applications for the 2022 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowships.

Applications close at 11:59pm on Monday 13 June 2022.

The lives of writers are a topic of perennial fascination to readers – and indeed to other writers. And yet the writer at work is often a mythologised figure, distant from the cares of the day. In Open Secrets Australian writers reflect upon the material conditions that give rise to their writing practice.

This year, we’ve given our newsletter a major overhaul. In 2022 our fortnightly newsletters will feature much more context about the essays and reviews that we publish. They’ll introduce the emerging writers and critics we champion through our fellowship and residency programs and take readers into our archive.

Written in response to Anonym: Alice Whitmore’s characterization of my 2000 talk on translation is a misleading confusion of apples…

As the festive lights turn on, we’re looking back over our 2021 program and contemplating the many competing narratives of Australian literature that thread through it.

Dear readers, Last week marked the close of the 2021 Sydney Review of Books publishing program. We could begin a…

Thursday 2 December, 4pm
Join us on zoom to mark the end of the SRB 2021 Program with readings by Timmah Ball, Miro Bilbrough, Elizabeth Bryer and Huyen Hac Helen Tran .

Launched in October 2021, The Circular is a weekly newsletter from the SRB that keeps the best new Australian non-fiction in circulation; essays, interviews, reviews, features and more. Each week we dispatch a newsletter highlighting interesting, useful and surprising non-fiction published by and about Australian writers.

Friday 15 October, 11am-12.30pm

To mark five years of the SRB-CA Emerging Critics Fellowships, the SRB and WSRC present a seminar on critical practice and Australian literature. The seminar will feature four past fellowship recipients – Ali Jane Smith, Madeleine Gray and Cher Tan – who will reflect on their experience as critics and the material circumstances that condition critical writing.