Recorded live at the 2023 Sydney Writers’ Festival, celebrated actor - and FANZA arts patron - Sam Neill shares stories from his memoir Did I Ever Tell You This, a wild and witty account of a career in film and TV spanning half a century.

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. 

We are delighted to welcome Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi to the board of FANZA. Jennifer is a leading specialist in the art of First Nations Australians. Following her years as a private dealer, where she exhibited regularly at The Saatchi Gallery and Masterpiece London, she founded JGM Gallery (London) in 2017. 

Frederick is a UK-based award-winning Māori artist and designer. He creates contemporary art pieces, graphic design work and photography, as well as commissioned pieces for individuals and businesses direct from his studio in Newcastle upon Tyne.

The Tait Memorial Trust is thrilled to announce the recipients of this year’s ballet awards. The recipients are dancers from Australia and New Zealand who study at the Royal Ballet School, English National Ballet School, Elmhurst Ballet School and Rambert Ballet School of Ballet & Contemporary Dance .

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.

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has announced she is writing a book, with the focus more on leadership than on politics.

Through an exciting partnership between the British Council New Zealand and the Pacific and Creative New Zealand, the Edinburgh Festivals Intensive programme has been reignited. This opportunity supports New Zealand artists to experience the Edinburgh festivals and this will be the first time a New Zealand delegation of artists has travelled to Edinburgh since pre-Covid-19. 

One of the UK’s leading literary industry talents has been announced as the new artistic director of Auckland Writers Festival, Waituhi O Tāmaki.

A 'powerfully compelling' novel narrated by a cheeky magpie called Tama has flown off with New Zealand's top literary prize.

Harvey Keitel has signed on to star in the eagerly anticipated Sky and Peacock TV adaptation of the Heather Morris novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has made Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list. The literary magazine, whose list has been published every year since 1983, has declared Catton, 37, one of its 20 most significant British novelist aged under 40.

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.

The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the bestselling novel by New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based writer Heather Morris is being turned into a six-part TV series.

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

Actor and FANZA arts patron Sam Neill will star opposite Annette Bening (American Beauty, The Kids Are All Right) in the highly anticipated new drama, Apples Never Fall.