From the Perth Writers Festival, debut authors Rajith Savanadasa and Chinelo Okparanta discuss their novels about family, love and coming of age in nations divided by civil war.

Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright, performer and designer whose work explores the themes of identity, displacement and destiny.

In the 19th century many famous novelists wrote about art. The Pen and the Brush explores how this came to be such a feature of the writers' works.

A new Australian play, Mark Colvin's Kidney, tells the unlikely story of a friendship between an ABC journalist and a woman who became his kidney donor.

Heard This and Thought of You is a collaboration between two musicians and eight writers that celebrates the evocative power of music.

He's been called a “prodigy”, “genius” and “potentially the greatest British choreographer since Kenneth MacMillan”. Now Liam Scarlett brings his celebrated talents to Brisbane.

What shape does the body make when we grieve?

The life story of a gay man in Ireland, stretching from the end of the Second World War to the 1995 Referendum on Marriage Equality.

Do you remember Archie as a clean cut redhead from the comic books? Things have changed.

Michael Rosen follows the famous French author in exile in London after he was sentenced to prison for his vocal support of Alfred Dreyfus.