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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 Stories and 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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Queensland author Lech Blaine's second book, Australian Gospel, is a first-person non-fiction account of his family's relationship to Michael and Mary Shelley. The book is heartbreaking, funny, and utterly compelling.
In 2017, Lech won a Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award. You can read his first memoir, Car Crash, here.
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So you've written a book (a girl, Alaska, werewolves), but then your book doesn't get published. And then 11 years later you're browsing in a bookshop and you start to read a novel that sounds exactly like the one you wrote.
Find out how a pair of U.S. authors are grappling with the tropes of romantasy – and accusations of plagiarism.
Listen or read here via the New Yorker.
