This week an emerging writer whose work I’ve seen develop over the past two to…
Category: Writing Workshop
This is an intensive set of workshops to encourage a regular writing practice, with each participant submitting 500-2000 words (or equivalent for poetry) fortnightly, for feedback and discussion.
The novel manuscript’s needs are great, and constant. Novels are anti-social creatures that don’t want…
A take-away from last week’s sessions had to do with gathering small scenes or sequences of incidents together into a more substantive single scene.
In the most recent of Writing NSW’s First Friday Club talks, hosted by author Ashley Kalagian Blunt, publisher…
A thousand pages of writing were framed by Mantel’s first paragraphs about Cromwell the boy:…
“Lie about everything to anyone who’s a stranger to you.” Reading excerpts of Walter Serner’s…
Do sales say anything meaningful about these books’ impact on our political process or cultural debate?
It wasn’t the fault of artistic angst, but Dear Dr Chekhov has taken a little while, a few…