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Read the 2016 print program today, featuring the artwork of Snip Green.

We are devastated for our peers within the literary community who have received the news this week that they have been unsuccessful in their applications for renewal of their funding from the Australia Council.

Courtney and Emilie talk about their grandmothers, Copernicus, uncut galaxies, poetry and German presidents.

Bri Lee talks with EWF about her exchange with the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival.

Out of 467 entries, 14 have made it to the shortlist.

"Humour has so much tangled up in tension and honesty that it’s hard to manufacture a stage persona that you have to work to stay within."