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23 March 2023. Clunes Booktown Festival: 1.30pm Let Me Read To You, afternoon readings hosted by Jacinta Parsons & 7pm Underscore with The Idiomatics at The Tin Shed.
22 March 2023. 6pm. Solo reading accompanied by Sally Ford & The Idiomatics at the Athenaeum Library.
10 February 2024. Underscore: a return performance of music and readings, at the Malthouse Theatre outdoor stage, with Helen Garner, Jane Clifton & Wayne Macauley.
31 May 2023. Underscore: a night of readings and music at the Brunswick Ballroom, with Helen Garner, Brian Nankervis & Wayne Macauley.
2 April 2022. Five Anecdotes, short fiction, in The Saturday Paper.
24 November 2020. A new essay on Gerald Murnane's The Plains in LitHub.
10 October 2020. Three Anecdotes, short fiction, in The Saturday Paper.
15 September 2020. Simpson Returns longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize.
4 March 2020. The Great Anzac Cooption, a session with Romain Fathi and Paul Daley, at Adelaide Writers' Week.
13 December 2019. Simpson Returns listed in The Age & Sydney Morning Herald's Books We Loved in 2019. ('A book every Australian should read')
9 December 2019. The Great Debate 2019 on ABC Radio National's The Book Show.
2 December 2019. Simpson Returns shortlisted for a Victorian Premier's Literary Award.
2 September 2019. A long-form review of Simpson Returns, in Sydney Review of Books. 'Elegant... ingenious'
August 2019. Meanjin & Readings blogs on Caravan Story. 'Funny, interesting, smart, and like nothing else I’ve ever read'
22 May 2019. An interview with Mel Cranenburg on 3RRR's Backstory.
11 May 2019. Simpson Returns reviewed in The Australian. 'arguably Australia's finest contemporary literary satirist'
1 May 2019. Simpson Returns reviewed in Australian Book Review. 'They should teach this book at school.'
29 April 2019. An interview on ABC Radio National's The Book Show.
25 April 2009. The Guardian on Anzac and Simpson Returns. 'masterful and beautiful... a triumph'
25 April 2019. An interview on 3CR's Published...Or Not.
13 April 2019. Simpson Returns reviewed in The Age.
12 April 2019. Article on Simpson Returns in The Guardian.
9 April 2019. An interview on ABC Melbourne Evenings.
9 April 2019. Simpson Returns reviewed on Booknotes. 'A must read.'
8 April 2019. Interview: Wheeler Centre: Working With Words.
4 April 2019. An interview on RN's The Drawing Room.

2 April 2019. Simpson Returns, a novella, released through Text Publishing.

27 March 2019. Simpson Returns reviewed in Readings Monthly.
30 March 2019. Simpson Returns reviewed in The Saturday Paper.
25 January 2019. Simpson Returns listed in The Australian's Hot Reads for 2019.
24 December 2018. Simpson Returns listed in The Age & Sydney Morning Herald's What To Read In 2019.
December 2018. Idle Hands, a story, in Overland (Issue #233).
Feb-Aug 2018. A six-month residency at the Keesing Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, funded through the Literature Board of the Australia Council.
23 May 2018. Some Tests longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award.
24 December 2017. S J Finn on Caravan Story ('eating one piece of art at a time' #54)
23 December 2017. Some Tests listed in The Australian's Best Books of 2017.
21 December 2017. Some Tests shortlisted in the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.
2 December 2017. Some Tests listed as a Book of the Year in Australian Book Review. 'a subtle and quietly moving novel'
5 October 2017. Caravan, co-written with Angus Cerini, Patricia Cornelius and Melissa Reeves, premieres at Malthouse Theatre as part of the 2017 Melbourne Festival. Nominated for a 2018 Awgie Award.
7 September 2017. Some Tests reviewed in Sydney Review of Books. 'amusing and very often frightening'
1 September 2017. Some Tests reviewed in The Lifted Brow. 'sinister and spiritual'
12 August 2017. Some Tests reviewed in The Australian.
27 July 2017. Some Tests reviewed in Kill Your Darlings.
5 July 2017. An interview on 3RRR's Multi-Storied with Elizabeth McCarthy and Louise Irving.
30 June 2017. Some Tests reviewed in Sydney Morning Herald & The Age. 'the shock of the familiar, vividly portrayed'
27 June 2017. Interview about Some Tests on Radio National Books and Arts.
24 June 2017. Interview about Some Tests in The Guardian.
23 June 2017. Some Tests reviewed on ANZ LitLovers blog.
21 June 2017. Some Tests listed in Readings' Top Picks Of The Month For Book Clubs.
19 June 2017. Some Tests reviewed in the Otago Times (NZ).
6 June 2017. Some Tests is officially launched at Readings Carlton by critic James Ley. 'I genuinely consider Wayne Macauley to be one of one of the best fiction writers in the country'
3 June 2017. Some Tests reviewed in The Saturday Paper. 'Wayne Macauley is an Australian original'
1 June 2017. An interview on 3CR's Published... or Not with David McLean.
30 May 2017. Some Tests reviewed in Readings Monthly magazine. 'Teeming with ideas... thought-provoking... completely unique... utterly compelling'

30 May 2017. Some Tests, a new novel, is released.

February 2017. A trip to Auxerre, France, to see Les Messagers performed.

August 2016. Extensive interview with Charlotte Wood in her The Writer's Room collection.
19 November 2015. Premiere performance of Les Messagers (The Messengers), translated by Etienne Grebot. Performed by Compagnie Les Encombrants at Theatre Mansart, Dijon, France. Directed by Etienne Grebot.
15 & 16 August 2015. Mudgee Readers Festival.
22 May 2015. Sydney Writers Festival.
2 May 2015. Demons reviewed on Reading Matters blog (UK).
30 April 2015. Demons is released in the U.K (Published by Text, distributed through Turnaround).
24 April 2015. Demons reviewed in the Daily Mail (UK)
14 April 2015. Demons is released in the U.S (Published by Text, distributed through Consortium).
March 2015. A Comment About Free Market Forces, new short fiction in Overland.
21-24 February 2015. Perth Writers Festival, including PWF at The Great Southern Ocean in Albany.
1 January 2015. Spinning Stories: the difference between fiction writers and politicians, an article in The Guardian.
29 December 2014. Demons listed as a 'Favourite Book of 2014' on Books and Pieces blog. ('Wayne Macauley's Demons rightly establishes him as perhaps Australia's greatest contemporary author.')
20 December 2014. Demons listed as a Book of the Year in The Australian.
11 December 2014. Demons shortlisted for a Victorian Premier's Literary Award.
1 December 2014. A wide-ranging interview with writer Charlotte Wood for her The Writer's Room Interviews series.
1 December 2014. Demons listed by State Library of Victoria as a 2014/15 'Summer Read'.
1 December 2014. Demons reviewed on Books and Pieces blog.
21 November 2014. Demons listed as a Best Fiction Book of 2014 by Readings Bookshop.
18 November 2014. A long-form review of Demons by James Ley in Sydney Review of Books.
3 November 2014. An interview on Channel 31's Behind The Words.
24 October 2014. Nobody Should Be Afraid Of His Little Bit Of Weirdness, an essay on Robert Walser in Sydney Review of Books.
21 October 2014. An interview on 4ZZZ's The Book Club with Sky Kirkham.
17 September 2014. An interview on 3RRR's 'Multi-storied' with Elizabeth McCarthy and Louise Irving. Listen here.
31 August 2014. 10am. 'The Morning Read' at Melbourne Writers Festival with Catherine Harris, Terry Hayes and Ouyang Yu.
30 August 2014. Demons reviewed in Melbourne.Arts.Fashion.
26 August 2014. Jennifer Byrne Presents: Seven Deadly Sins. Panel discussion on Gluttony, with Charlotte Wood, George McEnroe & Mark Colvin.
24 August 2014. Demons reviewed in Sunday Age & Sydney Morning Herald.
22 August 2014. 'Limits of Storytelling', a Melbourne Writers Festival event with James Ley and Maria Tumarkin.
16 August 2014. Demons reviewed in the Auckland Herald.
14 August 2014. In conversation at Sun Bookshop in Yarraville.
9 August 2014. An interview on 2SER's Final Draft.
8 August 2014. Demons reviewed in The Age.
4 August 2014. In conversation at Avid Reader bookshop in West End, Brisbane.
5 August 2014. In conversation at Avenue Bookstore in Albert Park.
1 August 2014. 'Story of My Life', profile and preview of Demons in The Big Issue.
1 August 2014. Interview on 'Writers Radio', Radio Adelaide, with Cath Kenneally. Listen here.
July 2014. Six Anecdotes (new short fiction) in Higher Arc #4.
29 July 2014. Interview with Bernard Ryan on 94.7 Geelong's 'The Blurb'.
29 July 2014. Demons, Q&A and official launch at Readings Carlton with Martin Shaw.
26 July 2014. Demons reviewed in The Australian.
26 July 2014. Demons reviewed in The Saturday Paper.
24 July 2014. Interview with Michael Williams on Radio National's 'Books & Arts Daily'.
24 July 2014. Interview with Jan Goldsmith on 3CR.'s 'Published... Or Not'.

23rd July 2014. Demons, a new novel, is released.

10 July 2014. Demons a Staff Pick at Readings. 'A compelling, hilarious, biting satire of our rampant culture of narcissism - Demons is Macauley at his caustic best.' Read Martin Shaw's full review here.
10 July 2014. Six New Anecdotes (new short fiction) in The Lifted Brow.
5 May 2014. The Cook featured on Reading Matters ('8 Good Reads From Australia').
4 November 2013. Keilor Cranium, first published in Meanjin (Vol 71, No. 4), is republished in Black Inc's The Best Australian Stories 2013.
16 October 2013. A playlist for The Cook, on the Largehearted Boy music blog (USA). Featuring tracks by The Necks, The Sand Pebbles, Silver Ray, and others.
16 October 2013. The Cook listed in Insight Guides' Australian Literature: Ten Great Books to Try.
27 September 2013. An Australia Council Literature Board grant (Jan-Dec 2014).
6 August 2013. An overview of the oeuvre, by SJ Finn in Readings Monthly. 'Traversing the ordinary and drawing out the particular… Macauley travels the landscape of the common experience with almost sublime casualness.' Read the full article here.

1 August 2013. The Cook (UK) re-jacketed and reissued in paperback.

"thought-provoking and brilliant" - The Guardian
"as tightly structured as a thriller" - Irish Examiner
"original, ambitious and disturbing" - Glasgow Herald

17 & 18 May 2013. Auckland Writers and Readers Festival.
24 April 2013. The Cook (UK) reviewed on Reading Matters book blog.
16-23 March 2013. The Republic of Trees, an adaptation for outdoor performance of Italo Calvino's The Baron in the Trees (Il Barone Rampante) performed as part of the 2013 Castlemaine State Festival. Winner of the 2012 George Fairfax New Theatre Award. (See pix here.)
23 February 2013 Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe reviewed on ANZ LitLovers blog.
26 January 2013. The Cook (UK) reviewed in Irish Examiner.
4 January 2013. The Cook (UK) reviewed in Financial Times.
13 December 2012. The Cook (UK) reviewed in The Guardian.
December 2012. A new story in Meanjin (Summer Issue).
16 November 2012. The Cook (UK) reviewed in the Daily Mail.
November 2012. The Cook (UK) reviewed online here, here, here, here, here and here.
8 November 2012. The Cook wins the inaugural 2012 Most Underrated Book Award.

8 November 2012. The Cook published in the UK by Quercus.

26 & 27 October 2012. International Festival of Authors (IFOA) in Toronto, Canada.

1 October 2012. The Cook (Aşçı, trns. İlker Sönmez) published in Turkey by Ithaki.

29 September 2012. Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe and Caravan Story reviewed in The Australian.
5 September 2012. The Cook shortlisted for a Melbourne Prize Best Writing Award.
25 August 2012. Melbourne Writers Festival.
9 August 2012. The Cook shortlisted for a Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction.
3-5 August 2012. Byron Bay Writers Festival.

31st July 2012. The Cook published in Canada by Penguin.

26 July 2012. An 'in-conversation' event with Gerald Murnane, 6.30pm at Readings St Kilda.
25 July 2012. Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe and Caravan Story reissued by Text Publishing.
5 July 2012. The Cook shortlisted for a WA Premier's Book Award for Fiction.
3 July 2012. The Cook featured on ABC TV's First Tuesday Book Club.
May 2012. Introduction to Gerald Murnane's The Plains appears in reissue as part of Text's Australian Classics series. (Reprinted in April issue of Kill Your Darlings magazine. Edited version published 5th May in the Weekend Australian.)
3-8 March 2012. Adelaide Writers Week.
23-26 February 2012. Perth Writers Festival.
January 2012. Nick Cave raves about The Cook: 'genuinely gripping... beautifully subversive. I loved it'.
24 December 2011. The Cook listed in the Weekend Australian's 'Books of the Year'.
13 December 2011. The Cook named Favourite Australian Fiction of 2011 on ABC Radio National Breakfast. (Listen here.)
Nov/Dec 2011. The Cook rights sold to Penguin (Canada) and Quercus (UK), for publication in 2012.
11 December 2011. The Cook is listed in the Sunday Herald Sun's 'Jolly Good Reads' (best books for Xmas).
3 December 2011. The Cook is listed among chief literary critic Geordie Williamson's 'Essential Summer Reading' in The Weekend Australian.
30 November 2011. The Cook is listed in Readings Bookshop's 'Best Fiction of 2011' .
19 October 2011. The Cook officially launched at Readings Bookshop, Carlton.

3 October 2011. The Cook, a new novel, is published in Australia and New Zealand by Text.

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