Updates

Happy new year, SRB readers,  The Sydney Review of Books will hit the milestone of ten years online this month and we plan…

Sydney Review of Books has been online for almost ten years. We need your support to help us into the next decade.

Friday 9 September 2022

Amani Haydar, Eloise Brook, Mykaela Saunders, Eda Gunaydin and Donna Abela will be in conversation about how writing plays a significant role in making visible acts of cultural, physical and gendered violence against women and trans and gender diverse people, through both the telling of stories, and the re-witnessing of trauma.

We’re thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2022 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowships are Kasumi Borczyk, Megan Cheong, Jenny Fraser, Muhib Nabulsi and Adalya Nash Hussein.

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.