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 perfect blue.

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 humidity. Sweat rolled down Anthea’s legs, pooling in her heavy factory work shoes.

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. Just as she had lost everything else. And now, she was just known as Bikhari, the beggar. For a creature like her...creature, woman, being...whatever she was, the name was adequate. It came straight to the point.

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 yes pay!) talented writers from the Writers Bloc workshop – publishing them alongside established and emerging writers from Australia and Overseas. 

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 placing (and paying!) the best emerging writers from our workshop alongside published authors from Australia and overseas. 

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. This week's feature is from our very own workshop, The Brown Torana by Sam Salvidge. 

I was bored. That's how shit like this always starts.