Books How recovering from brain surgery in Sydney inspired Karina May’s culinary rom-com The inspiration for Karina May’s first book came from a hospital bed. Find out more about how this moment changed her life.
News & Views New AI tool calls out gender bias in classic fairy tales A new AI-tool is explicitly exposing the severe gender biases that exist in fairytales such as Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.
Books Supporting women authors has big ripple effects. 2023 Stella-prize winner Sarah Holland-Batt is proof Stella-prize winner Holland-Batt shares how it was women who supported her creative endeavours while she cared for her dying father.
News & Views RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi wins book of the year Nagi Maehashi, founder of RecipeTin Eats, has won the top prize at the Australian Book Industry Awards for her debut cookbook RecipeTin Eats: Dinner.
News & Views A brilliant life “cut short”: Vale Gabrielle Carey, co-author of Puberty Blues Gabrielle Carey’s death comes just months after she wrote a harrowing article about mental health in which she noted her terror of turning 64.
Books Let’s shift how we value caring: Stella Prize winner Sarah Holland-Batt The prestigious 2023 Stella Prize for Australian women’s writing has gone to Sarah Holland-Batt’s poetry collection, The Jaguar.
Books We need to hang out more. A simple solution for surviving our increasingly fractured and complex world Our world becomes more fractured, more digital, and more chaotic. Author Sheila Liming has the answer: we need to hang out more.
Books Small and independent publishers sweep Stella Prize shortlist The six titles shortlisted for this year’s Stella Prize were all published by small and independent Australian publishers.
Books Pregnancy and parenting without a ‘partner’: Alexandra Collier’s ‘inconceivable’ path The author of Inconceivable talks to Women’s Agenda about taking her own path to motherhood, and getting pregnant at 39.
News & Views Your weekend rewatch list: 90s movies with epic female leads To celebrate IWD, we’re rewatching all the classic movies of the 90s with kickass female leads. Some favs and some underrated!
Books The key role Tanya Plibersek played in highlighting violence against women as a national crisis Women’s Agenda shares this extract from Tanya Plibersek’s new biography, On Her Own Terms, written by award-winning journalist Margaret Simons.
Life Two Aussie women smashing the stigma around grief with new book: Good Mourning Being vulnerable and sharing stories is one of the most powerful tools to process grief, writes Sally Douglas, co-author of Good Mourning.
