Getting The Edits Back On Your Debut Novel: A Survival Diary
I am excited, grateful, giddy even. I wrote a novel and some charitable people have agreed to publish it. Since then we have conducted a structural ed...
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Detouring Around The Language Barrier
An ideas piece by Lauren Fuge on how being immersed in a new language re-ignited an old flame. I rocked up in Munich with a year and a half of la...
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Inner Worlds: Critique In Real-Time
This is a creative nonfiction piece by CB Mako showing a real-time response to critique, and its interaction with mental health. “I have a non-...
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Why We Use Pseudonyms: Then and Now
What's in a name? Irene Bell explores a history of authors obscuring their identities with pseudonyms. “Literature cannot be the business...
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Unpacking: Releasing possessions through telling stories
Claire Rosslyn Wilson on decluttering and detangling the relationship between emotion and objects. I sat with my things and heard them breathe in...
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Reading Between The Lines: Why All Writers Should Belong To A Book Club
Fiona Murphy on how the benefits of a book club stretch beyond sharing a wine and a wheel of cheese. There are two questions that most ...
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Should Writers Subscribe to the Sites They Write For?
Scarlett Harris on the pros and cons of getting behind the paywall. These days, publishing is an increasingly paywalled industry in which som...
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NaFaNoWriMo - National Failing at Novel Writing Month
Britt Aylen on her history of failing National Novel Writing Month -- and why she keeps going back for more. They say the first sign of...
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More Room To Work With: A Critical Response to Paul Dalla Rosa’s ‘Day Spa’
In this ideas piece, Cameron Colwell looks at how longform fiction expands the scope for more nuanced exploration of important topics. In i...
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Me, You, And Writing This Review
Rebecca Varcoe on Jennifer Down's Pulse Points, and the complexity of critiquing the work of a person who exists in your real life too. ...
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Writer's Grief
Laura Elizabeth Woollett on the often hidden emotional punch of farewelling a long-term project. Writer's Grief I know the tears are comin...
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Should I Write A Book?
Scarlett Harris on not wanting to write a book—but wanting to want to write a book. Should I Write A Book? It seems like every wee...
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Listening To Snails
Oliver Mol Writes to cult legend Eric Yoshiaki Dando for a little help figuring it all out. Several days ago I boarded a train from Redfern...
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We Need To Talk About Your Writer Bio
This is an ideas piece by Elizabeth Flux, about how young writers are killing their careers (and writer bio) with cuteness. Di...
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On Narrative Nonfiction
Brendan James Murray, on the sometimes fine line between fact and fiction in narrative nonfiction. There’s currently a turf-war being...
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The Art of Adaptation
This is Craig Hildebrand-Burke, on what the golden age of TV and Film adaptations means for writers. It’s Oscars season, which inevitably...
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Leaving New York
This is Scarlett Harris, with her Obligatory Leaving New York Essay. It all started with Joan Didion’s seminal “Goodbye to All That...
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Writing Guilt
This is a piece by Scarlett Harris, on writing and guilt. I’m a guilty person. If I cancel plans, don’t go to the gym or call i...
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Be Kind To The Dog
This is a piece by Robert Lukins, on the sometimes long and always wonky road to publication. It’s all very strange. I’ve wanted nothing b...