This week an emerging writer whose work I’ve seen develop over the past two to…
Category: The Writerly Reader blog
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…
Poor Salman Rushdie. On the global books site GoodReads, he recently gave public 1-, 2-…
I love the baroque patterning that you can work toward with the family