The Latest Breaking News from Miles Franklin

The team behind the acclaimed show explain how they transformed Stella Miles Franklin’s 1901 novel into a modern musical that spans pub rock to bush folk

Writers Victoria, one of a national network of centres providing crucial support and employment to writers, has lost its funding – putting its “very survival” at risk. Its loss would make Victoria (whose capital, Melbourne, is a UNESCO City of Literature) the only mainland state without a state government-funded peak…

Netflix is filming a TV series based on Miles Franklin's novel My Brilliant Career, creating hundreds of jobs and injecting millions into the economy.

Australian actor Philippa Northeast will play Sybylla, alongside Slow Horses’ Christopher Chung, Andor’s Genevieve O’Reilly and British actor Anna Chancellor

The two-time Miles Franklin winner adds the $60,000 prize for women and nonbinary writers to her accolades, for a novel that troubles the line between fiction and memoir

In Inconvenient Women, Jacqueline Kent shines a spotlight on some of Australia’s most radical and influential writers.

In the Miles Franklin archive in the State Library of New South Wales there are two brown, cloth-bound volumes, titled, “When I was Mary-Anne, A Slavey”. The thick, handwritten pages are amended with glued paper inserts copied from the missing diary the author of My Brilliant Career kept for roughly…

Brenda Niall’s new book, as its full title announces, is a biographical account of the “hidden life” of novelist Joan Lindsay, best known as the author of Picnic at Hanging Rock.

The award-winning author has hit a more commercial note with this nuanced thriller about a CIA agent investigating the assassination of a journalist in Sri Lanka