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Food is belonging, otherness and a ‘glorious addiction’ for Melissa Leong and Candice Chung

How two food writers use meals to bridge cultural divides and heal family rifts

Festering families, difficult truths and transcendent grace: best podcasts of 2025

100 years on, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment

Diagnostic and symptomatic, accusatory and culpable, communal and personal, The Hollow Men is a poem about that which ails society at large.

World Autism Day: UOW graduate Zoe Simmons on the power of advocacy

Growing up, Zoe Simmons thought her experiences of sensory overwhelm, aversion to certain textures and noises, extreme anxiety, and difficulty with social cues was something everyone experienced.

Hannah Diviney: Changing the narrative from page to screen

“I'm like a computer with too many tabs open,” laughs Hannah Diviney. The description suits the 25-year-old writer, actress, and disability advocate who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) and Bachelor of International Studies from UOW in 2021.

The power of writing and reading

Catherine McKinnon, Shady Cosgrove and Hayley Scrivenor share the insights and inspirations they have gained through reading and the influence it has had on their own creative writing.