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Openbook

Openbook is a lavish, award-winning magazine of new writing, fresh ideas and contemporary photography.

This season’s edition is brimming with beautiful words, photography and artwork by some of Australia’s best writers and creatives, featured alongside fascinating discoveries made by our librarians and curators.

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Thanks to our friends at Joan, the first 30 people to subscribe will receive a copy of Thanks for Having Me by Emma Darragh. This tender and darkly funny debut novel weaves together stories about three generations of women in one family as they navigate girlhood, motherhood and selfhood. 

 

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    Letters & submissions

    Please email letters or article proposals to the editor: phillipa.mcguinness@sl.nsw.gov.au or post to Openbook editor, State Library of NSW, 1 Shakespeare Place, Sydney 2000. No responsibility can be accepted for unsolicited manuscripts, artwork or photographs.

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    We value reader suggestions and feedback. Please email your comments to openbook@sl.nsw.gov.au

    Cover of Openbook autumn 20234 issue