The recent round of Australia Council funding cuts has cast gloom across the arts sector; we look back at the last major cuts in 2008 and talk to Polyglot Theatre; it lost its funding and found ways to survive and prosper.

Denmark is a small, coastal town in Western Australia. Every year in June, singers, storytellers, MCs and spoken word artists descend on the town for the Denmark Festival of Voice.

Barbara Blackman has lived a long and full life immersed in the arts and in culture. Her new collection of essays captures her passion, her wit and the pleasures of a life well-lived.

Have you ever considered throwing away your day job and becoming a writer? That's exactly what the young Brisbane-based writer Bri Lee did last year. So what's involved?

American author Justin Cronin joins us to chat about The City of Mirrors. It's the highly anticipated final book in Cronin's literary vampire series, The Passage.

It all started in Venice but biennales now come in all shapes and sizes.

For Top Shelf, British author Lisa Owens shares the artworks that most inspire her.

In Tribes by Nina Raine, love gets complicated by the politics of hearing and deafness.

The author of A Little Life picks her masterpiece.

From the Sydney Writers' Festival, Canadian author and illustrator Jon Klassen chats about his bestselling children's books and why he can't stop writing about hats.