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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.

After conservation, the 12 paintings on pith ‘paper’ were re -attached with hinges made of Japanese paper to their silk ribbon borders. They were then attached with paper hinges back onto their respective album pages.

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8 March was International Women's Day. Find out about the 16 books shortlisted for the coveted Women's Prize for Fiction.

Discover the 'wonderful, extraordinary, eclectic mix of genres, of voices, of places'.

Via The Guardian

Three women standing together in a park holding a rainbow flag with crowd in background

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Love, lust and ghosts: celebrating queer fiction

Listen to the ABC Book Show's Claire Nichols and her guests discuss their writing lives and their queer characters.

Via ABC Radio National.

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What are Reading, Writing & Ideas staff reading now?

The cover of We Come With This Place by Debra Dank, which is orange and yellow.

The cover of Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au, which depicts a window with raindrops on it

Cover of At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao. The cover shows curved shapes like waves on a blue background.

Explore your favourite journals

Griffith Review

Griffith Review

Griffith Review is a literary and current affairs journal that offers fresh takes on big ideas.

Meanjin Quarterly

Meanjin Quarterly

Meanjin was founded in Brisbane by Clem Christesen (the name, pronounced Mee-an-jin, is the word in the Turrbal language for the finger of land on which central Brisbane sits) in 1940.

Overland

Overland – Australia’s only radical literary magazine – has been showcasing brilliant and progressive fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art since 1954.

Australian Book Review

Australian Book Review

Australian Book Review (ABR), one of Australia’s major cultural magazines, presents high-quality journalism and new writing for the widest possible audience.

Blog posts

A composite image of book covers diagonally spread out on a navy background

Reading, Writing & Ideas summer wrap-up

Get the most out of your summer with these book recommendations from 7 writers, judges and editors.

Quentin Beresford is onstage at the Queensland Literary Awards speaking behind a lectern. A screen is behind him with his book on it

State Significance: what's next for 2022 winner Quentin Beresford?

Quentin joined us to reflect on the tough journey to complete his prize-winning book, Wounded Country.

A photograph of writer Allanah Hunt, who has wavy brown hair haloed by soft lighting and wears red pentagram earrings

Where are they now: Allanah Hunt's incredible year

Nearly a year on from 2021's big QLAs announcements, we checked back in with award-winning writer Allanah Hunt.

What I'm Borrowing

A series exploring our affection for libraries, loans, and sharing great reads.

Composite image of Kay Kerr standing in a pink dress beneath an archway of pink flowers, plus the cover of her book Social Queue

What I’m Borrowing: Kay Kerr

What I’m Borrowing explores our affection for libraries, loans, and the books we love to share.

Mirandi Riwoe stands outside in a bright dress against a green background; the cover of Stone Sky Gold Mountain

What I'm Borrowing: Mirandi Riwoe

What I’m Borrowing explores our affection for libraries, loans, and the books we love to share.