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Taylor Swift looked back on her earliest days crafting songs in Music City as she was inducted Monday into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, becoming its youngest member at 36. Swift was inducted by former tourmate Brad Paisley, whom she teased, and serenaded by Lainey Wilson, whom she praised, before launching into a lengthy […]

As the Adelaide Festival launches its program for next year, its director confirms Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah has accepted an invitation to appear at next year's Adelaide Writers' Week.

The literary festival, which collapsed amid controversy this year, unveils its 2027 program – which features the Palestinian writer whose dismissal led to its implosion.

The Pasifika Entertainment Advancement Komiti has named the third cohort of its annual PEAK Writers Fellowship. This year’s cohort includes Kanani Koster, Erin Lau, Sean Oketani, Neil Tinkham and Pouariʻi Tanne. Supported by Netflix, the fellowship selects five up-and-coming writers whose work honors Pasifika (people of Pacific Islander descent) experiences,

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Dozens of leading figures term the UK law banning Palestine Action a ‘repressive absurdity’.

Inspiration for a great storyline can come from anywhere — whether that be a classic work of literature or a great pop song. It’s become somewhat of a bit for “Blue Film” writer-director Elliott Tuttle to include a reference to Lana Del Rey’s music in his screenplays. He’d written three (as yet unproduced) screenplays before […]