Mark Harding reflects on how books can help kids to belong. Read more

Booktopia's Ben Hunter shares his recommendations for short fiction books to read over the summer. Read more

Advice. All aspiring writers want it, hoping there’s some nugget of knowledge that holds the key to their success. Read more

Brodie Lancaster is a writer, editor and occasional DJ. Her debut novel is No Way! Okay, Fine. Read more

Maxine shares her thoughts about the process of memoir writing, the pull of the poetic form, and what it’s really like to write while female. Read more

Plus see who has taken out the individual awards for Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing for Young Adults. Read more

2014 was a huge year for Australian authors. There seems no better time, January being our month of Australian Stories, to reflect on my favourite Australian authors of 2014. So many Australian authors had career defining years in 2014, but these are a few that made a huge impact with their work both on and off the page. Confused about the concept? So am I, but we’ll get there. Sonya Hart... Read more

Grab a copy of Foreign Soil here Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award 2013. In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. This is contemporary... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Maxine Beneba Clarke author of Foreign Soil Ten Terrifying Questions ____________ 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? I was born and raised in Sydney, schooled in Sydney’s outer West (Kellyville and Baulkham Hills), before going to University on the South Coast (Wollongong). But now my hom... Read more