Writing tips and other bits

No wonder this book won so many hearts as well as awards. What an astonishing debut novel.

No matter whether the photographs were of carefree young faces or haggard images taken by police, they all seemed to hold the weight of what…

… Kalinda Ashton and Marlena Shaw. Kalinda Ashton has built a world so real you can feel it inside you. Marlena Shaw is one powerful woman, saying it like it is.

On Tuesday I was introduced to the wonderful Benjamin Solah. Here he is performing his ode to his sometimes friend, Anxiety…

… the nexus of literature and music. I love that the Nobel Prize committee decided to award the Literature Prize to a poet & musician, but I wish it had been Joni …

… Barkskins and Ticking Bomb One morning an old man, his back bent beneath a bundle, his glaring eyes roving left and right, came ricketing…

Apart from the sheer beauty, for me the way the backing singers support the soloist somehow embodies the strength and resilience of the oldest continuing culture on Earth.

… Our Magic Hour and Teeth & Tongue Two Melbourne artists this week. Jennifer Down’s sad and beautiful debut novel Our Magic Hour is pitch…

‘We either think that we’re invincible or that we are invisible
When realistically we’re somewhere in between’

… well researched long-form journalism and a bit of old school reggae Saturdays got a whole lot better since I subscribed to the Saturday Paper.…

How have I survived Australia’s dodgy political cycle all these years without Fiona Katauskas?