The Workshop | Writers Bloc
This is a Building Blocs piece about the Writers Bloc Workshop. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in possession of a draft…
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Take The M Train | Writers Bloc
This is a review of Patti Smith’s new book M Train. By Charles Cave. If your first introduction to Patti Smith is her new book, M…
Interview with Jane Rawson | Writers Bloc
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…
NYWF | Writers Bloc
This is a reflection on National Young Writers Festival by Chloe Escott I’m a writer of both music and words. I’m also a trans woman who only came…
Creating Cities
An Interview with Marcus Westbury: author activist and accidental urbanist. Readers above a certain age might know Marcus Westbury from presenting the ABC1 television series…
We Need to Talk About Ernest
A Literary Cities piece on drinking with Hemingway’s Ghost. By Liam Pieper. I’m the worst kind of tourist, in that I always manage to convince…
The Magic Trick | Writers Bloc
There’s a trick to worldbuilding in magical fiction, writes Raphaelle Race. The use of magic as a plot point in stories works to the author’s…
Eye of The Storm | Writers Bloc
This is a reflection on the Eye of The Storm Literary Festival in Alice Springs by Sophie Allan. I love the moment when you step off the…
The Book That Smashed the Sea
This is a book that… piece by Charles Cave. Franz Kafka once said “A book must be the axe which smashes the frozen sea within…
The Monomyth | Writers Bloc
…and how every story is basically Harry Potter. I’ve been telling myself (by which I mean people at parties) that I’m a writer for a…