Australian author Michelle de Kretser has been awarded the 2025 Stella Prize for her bold and inventive novel Theory & Practice. The announcement made on Friday 23 May positions de Kretser as one of the most celebrated literary voices in Australia today.

Independent Australian singer-songwriter Ziggy Alberts will mark a major career milestone this October with a headline performance at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall.

This year, to mark Australia Day and Waitangi Day, FANZA and The London Australian Film Society (LAFS) are joining forces to present the first ANZ FILM FESTIVAL.

Three masterpieces by the legendary Australian author Helen Garner have been published in the UK to great fanfare. Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. The Atlantic dubbed her 'the Joan Didion of Australia.'

We're thrilled to share that Australian author Richard Flanagan's latest non-fiction work, Question 7, a compelling exploration of the choices we make in love and the ensuing chain reactions, will be published in the UK on 30 May 2024.

Australian musician and comedian Tim Minchin has released a live performance of his album Apart Together to mark three years since its release. He filmed the show at the iconic Trackdown Studio in Sydney.

Congratulations to Australian composer Brett Dean, whose Cello Concerto has won the 2023 Ivor Novello Award for Best Orchestral Composition.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO), Joseph Tawadros and The Vampires featuring Chris Abrahams, have all taken home the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) music awards for best albums at the annual ceremony held on 15 November.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are about to start mixing their new album, Cave has revealed.

Donna Hay, Australia’s most trusted and bestselling cookbook author, returns with a follow up to her much-loved bestselling classic, Even More Basics to Brilliance. 

Gallery director and former FANZA trustee Rebecca Hossack returned to her native Australia last week for the 2023 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in Darwin. It was a glorious week celebrating the strength and richness of Australian indigenous culture - a culture that the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery has supported and promoted over the last 35 years.

The award-winning Australian artist platform at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, House of Oz, has partnered with London's favourite Aussie-inspired independent cafe and restaurant group, the Daisy Green Collection, to present "an exciting culinary journey to match the breadth of talent to be discovered onstage".

House of Oz, the colourful artist platform at Edinburgh Fringe, has been announced as one of seven innovative and exciting projects supported through the Australian government's International Cultural Diplomacy Arts Fund to showcase Australian talent on the international stage. 

Succession star Sarah Snook will headline the Sydney Theatre Company’s acclaimed one-woman adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray when it makes its West End debut early next year.

Anna McGahan’s Immaculate is the winner of this year's The Australian / Vogel’s Award for Young Writers, which has launched the careers of over a hundred Australian authors, including Anna’s uncle, beloved Australian novelist Andrew McGahan.

Australian author Michelle de Kretser's novel, Scary Monsters, has won this year's Rathbones Folio Prize for fiction.

English-born Australian publishing entrepreneur, businessman and writer Tony Wheeler has won the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing.

Cate Blanchett won best actress for her acclaimed performance as a composer-conductor in Tár.