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In Blue Giant, a reality TV trip-to-Mars novel, Jordan Prosser proves he’s a dazzlingly brilliant wordsmith – but is he too clever by half?
International hit Sorrow and Bliss is a tough act to follow. Sophie, Standing There, a book-loving novel about loss, is less funny – but has its own, quieter merits.
Sharon Kernot knows how to make a pressing, potent, aching song from a stanza of free verse lines – and how to make a page of poetry talk its way into your head.
The End of Romance is a relatable dystopia that amplifies humanity’s burning problems – but offers a glint of hope
Kris Kneen’s Rite of Spring is a pulsing story that moves energetically across its terrain, delivering a sense of alien understanding.
The Thornbacks features ‘weird sisters’ whose reaction to being unloved is to make themselves unlovable to almost everyone – except each other.
Beautiful and witty, Edwina Preston’s novel Sororicidal reveals an unnervingly precise understanding of the dark side of childhood.
The Ruiners is an unsettling literary eco-thriller set on a Greek island, which could be a bohemian utopia – if it wasn’t the site of illegal dumping.
Master storyteller Mohammed Massoud Morsi’s touching new novel explores the fate of asylum seekers fleeing the Syrian civil war.
Michael Winkler’s quietly provocative second novel, Griefdogg, asks: what if you had enough money to just … exist?
Steve Toltz was shortlisted for the Booker for his rollicking debut. His new novel, A Rising of the Lights, suggests true solace lies in human connection.
Debra Adelaide’s new book, When I Am Sixty-Four, is a complex, devastating and often funny love letter to her friend, the late Gabrielle Carey.
Award-winning author Eva Hornung’s time-travelling new novel explores Australia’s tensions around land ownership and belonging.
Miss Kate Cocks, the real-life first policewoman in South Australia, is the star of Lainie Anderson’s historical crime novels – with a Phryne-Fisher-like offsider.
In two thrilling new fictional riffs on Greek myth, Natalie Haynes and Zoe Terakes interrogate ancient stories of heroism and desire.
Pip Finkemeyer’s tech world novel, One Story, is interested in power and performance. It reveals how violence can hide behind language – and the performance of care.
Andrew Roff’s debut novel, Here Are My Demands, looks forward to an imagined future – but seems more concerned with now.
Toni Jordan’s novel Tenderfoot, a bracing, beautiful meditation on childhood, shares crossovers with her own life.
Nicolas Rothwell and Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson’s new book suggests only Aboriginal people, and the misfits who cleave to them, can know the desert’s grim majesty.
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Assistant Researcher, School of Languages and Culture, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Researcher, English and Writing, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
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Researcher, School of Art, Communication and English, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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PhD Creative Writing, School of Humanities, Adelaide University
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Writing, The University of Queensland
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Emeritus Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, Adelaide University
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PhD Candidate, Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of History, School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney