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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.

Read
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

Listen
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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