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…
New Kid on The Bloc
Why Hello! I’m the new Content Director ofWriters Bloc. In the proud tradition of the Australian democratic process, I’ve ousted our long-serving and much-loved extant Editor…
Bloc Features: Assia | Writers Bloc
Originally published in Phantasmagoria This week’s Bloc Feature, ‘Assia’ by Anthony Kuiper, was first published by the Australian online magazine Phantasmagoria. Bloc Features is our new…
Meet Sherryn | Writers Bloc
Interview by Amy Maynard. There are heaps of great writers using our workshop, so we asked Amy to speak to a few of them. Today,…
Bloc Features: Destroyed Flowers Everywhere
Originally published in Fourteen Hills Our latest Bloc Feature has been shared with us by San Francisco journal Fourteen Hills. Bloc Features is a project designed to…