On Tuesday night we spoke to Jane Rawson as part of our monthly Bright Young Things book club.

She was really generous and I had a lot of fun. Halfway through our chat, Jane's internet connection droppped out so we continued our chat via email.

An Interview with Marcus Westbury: author activist and accidental urbanist. 

Interview by Amy Maynard.

There are heaps of great writers using our workshop, so we asked Amy to speak to a few of them. Today, she's in conversation with Melbourne-based writer Sherryn Groch.

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In just a few weeks the Digital Writers Festival will be happening, and we can’t wait. Run by the very approachable and fantastic foot-in-the-door enablers at the Emerging Writers Festival, this eleven-day festival is a brand new event, open and accessible to anyone, anywhere.

Festival co-director Connor Tomas O’Brien was kind enough to tell us more.

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This is an interview between Writers Bloc friend Bridget Lutherborrow and The Canary Press editor Robert Skinner.

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In the about section of your website you describe the magazine as “running shambolically,” and say you don’t know where it will end up, but you’ve got to have some vision for what this thing does. What made you think “yep, the world needs another lit mag”?

A quick NaNo quiz with Sydney’s NaNoWriMo Municipal Liaison Hong Xie

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What’s your role with NaNoWriMo?

This is an interview between Daniel Young, editor of Tincture Journal and Ira McGuire, whose story Exposed appeared on Writers Bloc yesterday.

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DY:   Ira, how did you come to fiction writing? Is this something you’ve always wanted to pursue, or something you came upon at a certain point in your life?