Writers' stories

I had never heard of feminism until l was in my 20s. It sounds unlikely, especially amid the modern media frenzy over Kleenex "mansize" tissues and Gilette's "toxic masculinity" advert, but it's true. It wasn't something people talked about. It wasn't something they taught at school. I simply didn't know it existed.  Read more

Christobel Kent is among the English language's finest crime writers-and finest writers, as far as I'm concerned. In poetic, nuanced prose, she constructs powerful stories about misogyny and violence.  Read more

This past weekend, the New Yorker published a lengthy exposé detailing how Dan Mallory, the former William Morrow executive editor and pseudonymous author, as A.J. Finn, of the bestselling thriller The Woman in the Window, had lied to colleagues and superiors for years as he rose up the ranks in publishing.  Read more

The winner of Australia's richest literary prize did not attend the ceremony.

His absence was not by choice.

Behrouz Boochani, whose debut book won both the $25,000 non-fiction prize at the Victorian premier's literary awards and the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature on Thursday night, is not allowed into Australia.

Bestselling urban fantasy novelist Sherrilyn Kenyon has filed a lawsuit against her husband that accuses him of poisoning her for financial gain, as well as attempting to destroy her career and reputation, in what she described as a "Shakespearean plot against her".  Read more