Royal Commission into Femicide

Poetry guest edited by Eileen Chong

The terminological dispute – Anthropocene or Capitalocene? – may not be so important. What does matter is which...

When commissioning for this edition of Tell Me Like You Mean It, I gave one prompt to contributors: “Go bonkers! (If you want! So fine if not!)”

Poetry guest edited by Emilie Collyer

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Alice Oswald is the current Professor of Poetry at the Faculty of English. She took up her post in September 2019. Alice Oswald’s first two lectures as Professor of Poetry are available online: ‘The A...

I was given my first watch, an insipid-looking Tissot, at the age of 11 or 12; for several days I spent hours staring at...

Enter the time warp and explore the Rocky Horror Picture Show script and Jim Sharman’s visual diaries, now on Trove.

Poetry guest edited by Andy Jackson

New poems by 38 Australian and international poets braid together generosity, practice and ecology in The Braided Gift, edited by Shari Lynelle and Lucy Van.

Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy

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Eleven Urgent & Possibly Helpful Things I Have Learned About Writing From Reading Thousands of Manuscripts

The geographic barriers that can, at times, hinder Australian literature are no longer relevant, and poetry communities around the world must be enlightened by the commanding, demanding and excitin…

Australian poems by Australian poets are at the heart of Red Room Poetry, an organisation devoted to creating, publishing and promoting the reading and writing of great new work.

June 2025

Dear reader, Please be advised that published work may contain triggering and difficult topics. Therefore, most written pieces have content warnings for reference. While Raw Lit aims to offer a safe.....

Frida Kahlo was broken and bedridden when she began painting. A trolley-car had crashed into her bus and she was speared by an iron handrail, puncturing her abdomen and uterus. Her spinal column was w...

On the 196th day of a live-streamed genocide in Palestine, I find that many words have lost their meaning. Words I might have spoken once with seriousness, even reverence. I might once have imagined a...

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”This is a revolutionary, extraordinary sentence. It is a much loved, much cited sentence…