Catch author Jean Taylor read from her acclaimed Brazen Hussies - a Herstory of radical activism - at Words on Wednesday, 19 January, as part of the Midsumma Festival.

Susan Hawthorne blogs on busy overseas activities for Spinifex Press - most recently in Frankfurt and Paris.

Congratulations to Lara Fergus, whose beautiful, powerful and unique debut novel My Sister Chaos has made it to Readings Books & Music Best Fiction 2010. And a spectacular review in The West Australian.

Read the launch speech by Robyn Arianrhod for My Sister Chaos.

Watch Dr Vandana Shiva's Sydney Peace Prize lecture on ABC's Big Ideas program. In this compelling, inspiring lecture, Dr Shiva asserts that a biodiversity of knowledge systems is imperative in creating rich ways of thinking about the earth, and negating blind, mechanical, reductionist thought that currently projects itself as abundance.

French journalist, Marie-Monique Robin speaks with Bush Telegraph about her expose on Monsanto. The interview also includes an extract from Vandana Shiva on the documentary of the same name.

Patricia Sykes has been shortlisted again for the prestigious Newcastle Poetry Prize which she won in 2009. For more information about the prize go to Hunter Writers' Centre.

Kathleen Barry featured at the Women's Media Center.

Listen to Lara Fergus talking about her debut novel, My Sister Chaos on ABC RN The Book Show. And read Lara's take on the writing process at The Wheeler Centre.

An edited version of Vandana Shiva's 2010 Sydney Peace Prize speech appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and New Matilda; and NTD TV reported on her Wheeler Centre address.