Introducing the five shortlisted authors.

On exchange from UWRF, poet Adimas Immanuel featured in several EWF events, and during his stay in Aus we connected him with regional Victorian writer, Mark Smith, for a cultural and community exchange.

'Believing love is possible is both the most difficult things, and one of the things that motivates us to keep going. That really covers a lot of aspects for me; believing in love is hard a lot of the time.'

'In terms of fiction, I’ve always enjoyed speculative fiction and how it can utilise the most imaginative aspects of storytelling. Recently, though, I’ve been exploring and come to really appreciate non-fiction and realistic stories as well – I...

'I think we’re at a really interesting time in history when we’re conceiving of love in innovative, unconventional ways—polyamory, online dating, conscious uncoupling, etc.'

Ahead of her appearance at Late Night Lit: Midwinter Nocturne tonight, we chatted to writer and comics maker, Eloise Grills.

"In literary translation in particular, what's important isn't just what is said, but also how it's said, and the effects of how it's said, so it's often justified to diverge from the literal meaning in order to convey these things, which requires an...

"People are always scared of new communication technologies. Plato writes that when the god Theuth gave Pharaoh Thamus the invention of writing, he refused it on the basis that literacy would destroy wisdom and make all young people ignorant. After t...