Q & A with Author Amanda Curtin

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

Editing sigh

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…

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Memory is a wilful dog. It won’t be summoned or dismissed but it cannot survive without you. It can sustain you or feed…

I can’t wait to read something that’s NOT Australian Yes, I know it’s only a matter of days since I admitted that I’d…

Everyone is related to the world through something. I through words… before I stopped writing, words had become treacherous and untrustworthy to me….

Last year I was invited by Westerly to write their annual fiction review. New Australian books would be delivered to me, absolutely pristine,…