Share with us your favourite Australian debut book and you could win one of three copies of Ruth Clare's debut 'Enemy', a daughter's story of how her father brought the Vietnam war home.

Do you live in regional Victoria and would like to be a part of the Emerging Writers’ Festival 2016? Is there an exciting literary element in your home town that you would like to share to a national and international audience?

Are you the DWF's next Director?

We are devastated for our peers within the literary community who have received the news this week that they have been unsuccessful in their applications for renewal of their funding from the Australia Council.

Out of 467 entries, 14 have made it to the shortlist.

"Humour has so much tangled up in tension and honesty that it’s hard to manufacture a stage persona that you have to work to stay within."

"It is very hard to get a job as a cartoonist because none of the old cartoonists will die and you are not allowed to kill them."

"I was looking for something big and colourful to do this year; something I could really test myself against and grow through. When I heard about the opportunity to be a Creative Producer at the Emerging Writers’ Festival, I knew it was the perfect...