This featured piece was originally published by Hot Chicks with Big Brains.
Hot Chicks with Big Brains (HCwBB) is an interview series determined to challenge the way women are often pigeonholed. They feature discussions...
How to Live
A Writers Bloc workshop feature
How to Live
by James Arbuthnott
Part 1
I sit at a shopping trolley filled with beer. A radio tied to...
Sick Leave: A Year of Living Horizontally
This week's Bloc Feature, 'Sick Leave: A Year of Living Horizontally' by Anna Barnes, was originally published in issue 23 of Kill Your Darlings journal. You can purchase the journal here or go check out their wonderful...
Home is Burning
This is an extract from our Bloc Club book Home Is Burning by Dan Marshall (Hachette)
“I fucking love it here,” I said like a spoiled white asshole as I looked up at the cloudless sky, seeing only palm trees against the...
Broomie, 1955
This is an extract from The Uncanny Love of Jimmy Panagakos by Beth Hill.
Anthea braced herself against the bright heat of the sun as she pushed hard into her front door. It was stuck again, swollen against the frame in the...
The Beggar
A Writers Bloc workshop feature
The Beggar
By Namita Hiro
*TRIGGER WARNING*
She must have had a name, long ago when she was born. But she had lost it somewhere along the way....
Bloc Features: Assia
Originally published in Phantasmagoria
This week's Bloc Feature, 'Assia' by Anthony Kuiper, was first published by the Australian online magazine Phantasmagoria. Bloc Features is our new project in which we aim to promote (and...
Bloc Features: Destroyed Flowers Everywhere
Originally published in Fourteen Hills
Our latest Bloc Feature has been shared with us by San Francisco journal Fourteen Hills. Bloc Features is a project designed to support the future of Australian writing by...
The Brown Torana
A Writers Bloc workshop feature
Bloc Features is a new Writers Bloc project where we publish some of the best writing from our website, Australian and overseas journals, as well as debut and emerging novelists....