Best of the Bloc Features | 2016

As Deputy Editor here at Writers Bloc, I've had the absolute privilege of working with some of Australia's most amazing emerging and established writers. The Best of Bloc Features 2016 is here to take you out of 2016 with a look at some of my...

Best of The Bloc | 2016

This year we've had the privilege to publish some of the best, brightest, and most provocative writing from around Australia and the world. Here's a look at some the highlights. 


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Bloc Features: The Great Blue Roof

We are thrilled to feature a new short story by a talents from the next brilliant generation of Australian writers


The Room with the Great Blue Roof

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Bloc Features: That Horrible Moment During Sex or a Date Where...

This week's Bloc is Featuring newly launched Hook Up, a zine about honestly expressing sexuality and sexual experiences, cutting through unrealistic contemporary expectations of queer culture. You can buy Hook Up here, and check...

Bloc Feature: The Ugly Pineapple by Joel Burrows

This week's Bloc Feature comes to us care of Wollongon's Ugly Pineapple zine. You can check out their recently born Facebook page here, buy a copy of the zine here, and follow Editor Isabel Moon's Instagram here


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The Festival of Miracles

We are thrilled to feature a new short story by a talents from the next brilliant generation of Australian writers


Earlier this year, Writers Bloc reached out to high schools to trial a new competition to find and publish brand new...

Bloc Features: Deconstructed Gender: A Tried-And-True Recipe For Unwinding The Binary by Nikki Nicnevin.

This week's Bloc Feature has been shared by the electric zine #EnbyLife. #EnbyLife is a zine about non-binary experiences and stories featuring writers, artists and creatives from Australia and overseas. Non-binary (enby) people don't fit within...

Hetero

We are thrilled to feature a new short story by a talents from the next brilliant generation of Australian writers.


Earlier this year, Writers Bloc reached out to high schools to trial a new competition to find and publish brand...

Bloc Features: Hope for the body by Lucas Grainger-Brown

This week's Bloc Feature comes to us from the ever-fascinating and exciting Going Down Swinging. Going Down Swinging is one of Australia's longest-running and most respected journals. The journal works across platforms to produce high...

Extract – Jewel Sea

This is the first chapter of Jewel Sea, a novel by Kim Kelly, out now through The Author People. 


Jewel Sea is the story of the Koombana, Australia's forgotten Titanic tale, a story of ambition and greed at the end of...

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