Openbook

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

The bumper winter issue includes a profile on bestselling novelist Pip Williams, Ashley Kalagian Blunt reflects on how creativity — including reading — can improve health and wellbeing, and retiring State Librarian John Vallance shares his highlights from six years at the helm of the Library. There's also a poem by Gamilaroi poet Luke Patterson, Eda Gunaydin explores how writing saved her life, and Stuart Kells busts a few myths about Shakespeare.

So, if you love books and libraries become an Openbook person today. 

Subscriber offer

Thanks to our friends at Allen & Unwin, the first 25 new subscribers will receive a copy of Search History by Amy Taylor. This debut novel is described as ‘sharply funny’ from a writer billed as ‘one of the most perceptive and original new voices in Australian fiction’. Who wouldn’t want to read a novel that carries the tagline ‘Rebecca meets Fleabag’?

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.

Feedback

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