‘Time is what makes everything OK. How it flows forward and circles round itself, both; how life, suspended, zero gravity, in time consists of so many things repeating.’

Maria Tumarkin is one of Australia’s foremost writers of creative non-fiction. With Axiomatic, her fourth book – seven years in the making – she explores the limits of stories and of institutions, and…

There's a new breed of Australian creative non-fiction writer. These writers are playing with form, experimenting with narrative structure and injecting new energy into our literary culture – as they explore how their individual experiences connect with broader cultural moments.

In this conversation, we’ll bring together two writers who have both addressed the realities of living with mental or chronic…

We've always built memorials to our dead. But how do our memorials and commemorations differ across cultures and how are they changing in the 21st Century? Why do we have different types of memorials for different kinds of death?

In the third part of our Dead Calm series, Hilary Harper will explore the role, relevance and relief offered by memorials…