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When we read, we start at the beginning and continue until we reach the end. When we write, we start in the middle…

For a writer, there’s no such thing as an exemplary life. It’s a fact that certain writers do good work at the bottom…

We are two dry stretches of country. We carry the marks of millions of years, from the volcanoes, the ice ages, droughts, fires,…

Q & A with Author Peter Docker

Peter Docker was born in Wiilman Country at Narrogin, Western Australia, and is of Irish, Cornish and English heritage. He grew up on…

Reading Renaissance

Almost a decade ago, while living in Melbourne, I had my first ‘real’ full-time office job. A thinly-veiled fictional account of this experience…

…I teach…uncontainment…what it is like to build a story in your body from the words to the sentences, to the paragraphs, to the…

Amanda Curtin is a writer and freelance book editor based in Perth, Western Australia. Her first novel, The Sinkings, was published by University…

I’m currently in the process of editing my novel Whisky Charlie Foxtrot for publication. It’s always a fascinating process having new eyes reading…

Though we can condemn … the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books, we are powerless when it comes to…

Young Adult, the latest movie from the Jason Reitman/Diablo Cody team, tells the story of thirty-something Mavis Gary, the writer of a long-running…