May 24, 2013 An author who pens stories the length of a sentence won this year's Man Booker International Prize.

May 24, 2013 Heavy rain through the night might have brought on ''uhtceare'' and powerful urges to ignore the alarm in favour of ''floccilation'', but the city's literary crowd ventured out nonetheless, filling many of Thursday's Sydney Writers Festival sessions.

May 23, 2013 Heavy rain through the night might have brought on "uhtceare" and powerful urges to ignore the alarm in favour of "floccilation", but the city's literary crowd ventured out nonetheless, filling many of Thursday's Sydney Writers Festival sessions to capacity.

May 22, 2013 Jo Case has come to see her son's diagnosis as a gift.

May 22, 2013 Were the American actor and author Molly Ringwald to play a character in the screenplay adaption of her own fiction, it would be Marina, the feisty single mother of a six-year-old boy who wishes he was a girl.

May 21, 2013 Welshman Daniel Morden is hooked on telling stories, writes Linda Morris.

May 20, 2013 Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Nunga poet, is the second Aboriginal writer to win the top prize in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, in consecutive years.

May 19, 2013 Emerging Writers' Festival director Sam Twyford-Moore talks about his favourite books.

May 19, 2013 Anna Goldsworthy's second autobiographical work is an account of the pains and pleasures of parenthood.

May 19, 2013 This British husband and wife team feels there's a better way to communicate with younger readers.