Recent blog posts
New creative writing about writing.
We analyse a growing trend in Australian climate fiction, where connections between neoliberal capitalism and climate change are becoming major themes.
This article takes a practical and cognitive approach to the writer-character relationship. We consider a writer’s approach to character as a form of problem-solving.
This study examines how Australian literary journal editors' use of the media affects the operations and economics of their publications and the field as a whole.
This paper charts a genealogy for the critical essay, which I define as a literary essay that includes analysis of an artwork amongst its objects of inquiry.
In the political context of climate inaction, if the task is to refigure the social imaginary towards interconnection with all lifeforms, is the novel an adequate means of engagement?
We review books by David McCooey, Jessica Luck Lewis, Peter Goldsworthy, Jill Jones, Jen Webb, James Shea and Grant Caldwell (eds), Jakob Ziguras, and Hazel Smith.
Dialogue is a prominent feature of creative non-fiction used to reveal character. But how can conversation be recovered if your subject has passed from living memory?
Creating or recreating voices through the writing of fictional letters can be a way of reconnecting with places that may have been taken from us.
How can the innovative spirit of a poet catalyse the breaking of traditional artistic conventions and engender a transformative effect within the realm of poetry?
‘The Shelters of Imagination’ is a series of five poems which explore the relationship between a writer’s place and the phenomenological aspects of literary composition.