Photo Credit: Ron Lach | “Person Typing on Green Typewriter on Brown Wooden Table” | Pexels “Who uses typewriters anyway?” is a lyric by American singer-songwriter, Taylor Swift, from her song The Tortured Poets Department. Though author KT Major doesn’t use a...
Tash - The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon This fictional story is the fourth in the Bone season which is a dystopian and paranormal thriller. Being in the centre of a planned seven book series means that this is the integral part of the storyline. Compelling,...
On May 24th, at the Sydney Writer’s Festival, a panel titled “The Secret Lives of Women” featured three cross cultural novelists. This panel discussed the inner worlds of their characters, where aspirations that are obscured by duty and expectations of the world. The...
Samantha Shannon, speaking at the 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival, with Shelley Parker-Chan. Photo credit: Nataša Aster-Stater The Roots of Chaos event, which was held at the Sydney Writers’ Festival on May 25th, showcased the author, Samantha Shannon, speaking to a...
Self-education has been a trend in books, podcasts, reality television, and social media for a long time, and is only growing - for university students, navigating the transition between high school and adult life can be overwhelming, to say the least, with no clear...
Author: Lidya Rivai | Edited by Nataša Aster-Stater From the onset, Tim Winton’s novel, ‘Juice’, would be a book that I’ve not read the likes of in a very long time. I’m sure many people have drawn the parallels between Winton’s latest release and Cormac McCarthy’s,...
Author: Olivia Fraser Edited By: Abbie Simmons My name is Liv, I am a third-year Bachelor of Paramedicine student and at the start of 2024, I travelled to London with 8 of my peers to do a placement with the London Ambulance Service (LAS). I chose to apply for a...
On Wednesday the 31st of July Western Sydney University issued a public statement notifying of a data breach within the University’s storage platform, ‘Isilon’. This unauthorised access affects, but is not limited to, the information of former and current students...
(Netflix. Heartbreak High season 2 poster. Chaotic poster with characters from the show. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/heartbreak_high_2022/s02, 2024) Introduction After a two-year hiatus, Heartbreak High's Gen-Z reboot returned with its second season on...
(Picture of a frame from the ‘Celestial Emu’ short film. Photo credit: Luci Kugathasan, 2024) Introduction On Tuesday, the 13th of August, I attended the Sydney Science Festival’s ‘Celestial Emu’ event at the Powerhouse Museum alongside W’SUP's Social Media...