The soundtrack of gospel music has its roots in Mississippi, the birthplace of the first African American woman to publish music of the genre.
Twelve works are in the running for the Stella Prize, Australia's major literary award for women and non-binary writers.
The Queensland government has announced the state’s literary awards will move from their current home at the State Library of Queensland to “an alternative provider” – along with the black&write!
Queen Camilla has broken her silence on the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor scandal in a thinly veiled comment about ‘abusers’.