MELBOURNE, 25 August 2025: Every Word Matters: Writing to Engage the Public by Dr. Ranjana Srivastava is a guide for writers aiming to create impactful opinion columns, advocacy pieces, and essays. Published on July 29, 2025, by Simon & Schuster Australia, the book draws on Srivastava’s experience as an oncologist and award-winning writer offering practical advice on simplifying complex ideas, developing a distinctive voice, and engaging audiences.
Her dual perspective as a physician and writer highlights the power of language to inform, persuade, and heal. It’s available in paperback (ISBN: 9781761634192) and eBook formats from retailers like Simon & Schuster, Barnes & Noble, and Readings Books.
The book was launched today at the Monash Medical Centre, with prominent radio broadcaster Jon Faine in conversation with her with the large presence of academics, medical professionals and community leaders. Dr. Ranjana Srivastava, oncologist and author well known as a Fulbright Scholar and for her Guardian Australia column on medical related writing, a rare combination laced with human interest ambience.
She wants to continue writing and in Every Word Matters… , she is at ease with words that inform and heal. The challenges of the written word laced with her experience is reflected in her book. In the first chapter she says, ” I have always regarded writing as my personal passion, a creative endeavour I have pursued for the sheer joy of tinkering with words. Writing is my happy place.”
It was a sheer joy to see so many people take interest in subjects, I call rare. And here, Dr. Ranjana Srivastava vocally expressed her views on her inspirations and zeal for writing, encouraging others to do the same.
She writes , ” The book will not turn you into a writer any more than paddled chairs in the library will. But if you stay with me, and open to a bit of advice and guidance and most important of all, ready to do the work of writing, I am confident you will emerge as a better writer”
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