The Anxiety of Influence
Is your writing original? Probably not. But that’s no reason to get stressed about it. Raphaelle Race dives into the sea of neurosis that is…
Author: Writers Bloc
On Winning And Losing
This is a Writers’ Other Jobs piece by Sunil Badami, who won the game show Temptation. Like lots of writers, I’ve had more jobs than I’ve had…
Building Blocs – Narrative NonFiction
Brendan James Murray, on the sometimes fine line between fact and fiction in narrative nonfiction. There’s currently a turf-war being fought on the Australian literary…
Ask Me Editing | The Bad Romance Edition
This is Ask Me Editing, our publishing advice column with Agony Un-Uncle Elizabeth Flux. Many years ago I worked in an office where I had…
Creative Cupid: Our Writing Mentor Program
Introducing Creative Cupid, our writing mentor program. Writing can be a lonely business. As a writer we have the privilege of spending time creating characters,…
The Art of Romance
Justin Heazlewood, on the art of balancing a relationship and a creative career. When it comes to a choice of partner, there are two schools…
Writers’ Other Jobs | Soap Star
Chiefly though, I’m an actor. A professional one. Which means I spend a lot of time at family gatherings justifying my career choice to relatives…
Eli Glasman on The Book That Gave Me YA Writing Guidance
This is a ‘The Book That…’ post from Eli Glasman. Eli Glasman’s debut novel, The Boy’s Own Manual to Being a Proper Jew (Sleepers Publishing), about a homosexual boy…
The Art of Adaptation
This is Craig Hildebrand-Burke, on what the golden age of TV and Film adaptations means for writers. It’s Oscars season, which inevitably means a whole…
Leaving New York
This is Scarlett Harris, with her Obligatory Leaving New York Essay. It all started with Joan Didion’s seminal “Goodbye to All That” essay in 1967…