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State Library is a home for readers and writers, literature and storytelling. Want to search the latest issue of a journal or magazine? Desperate to find your next favourite book or essay? Need a podcast to listen to while you write? Here, staff from Reading, Writing & Ideas and black&write! share the stories they love each month. You’ll also find our latest interviews with local writers and creatives.
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Historian Rosa Campbell weaves a great story about women's sport, by starting with a tale you might have heard before: when Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon.
Campbell has also created a digital map highlighting 1970s feminist and lesbian sports culture in Sydney.
'Playing the game' by Rosa Campbell, published by Overland
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Two south-east Queensland First Nations authors are in the publishing spotlight this month – Melissa Lucashenko with her novel Edenglassie and Melanie Saward for her debut Burn. This is a great episode offering a deep dive into each author's book.
Melanie also notes the influence of Melissa's ground-breaking essay 'Writing as a Sovereign Act', published in 2018, on her own work.
via ABC Radio's The Book Show