On Scrivener

Editor's Desk

This is a public service announcement from the Content Director of Writers Bloc about the divine gift to writers that is Scrivener. I recently attended…

Trust Issues | How To Make Friends With Your Editor

Building Blocs

This is a Building Blocs Piece, on building relationships between freelancers and editors. Editors are the literal gatekeepers to publication. Learning how to build good…

This is Probably Art, After All

Events

This is a review of the 2016 This is Not Art Festival, by Cameron Colwell. 2016 is the second year I attended Newcastle’s This Is…

Bloc Features: Hetero

Bloc Features

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…

This Is Not Art | 2016

Events

This is the Writers Bloc Guide to the 2016 This Is Not Art Festival. The This is Not Art Festival is almost upon us! This…

Between a Blog and a Hard Place

Ideas

This is a piece by Scarlett Harris, on the changing landscape for online writing. It seems that everywhere I look on the internet these days…

Ideas: Hot Take Culture

Ideas

This is an Ideas piece by Scarlett Harris about why we should maybe cool it with the hot takes. The pressure of hot take culture means…

Bloc Features Extract: The Invisible War

Bloc Features

The Invisible War is a graphic novel due to be launched this month by the Scale Free Network art-science collaborative, a Melbourne based micro-publisher, inspired by…

Giveaway | Jewel Sea

Giveaway

  We are thrilled to be able to offer a couple of our lucky readers a free copy of JEWEL SEA. JEWEL SEA is the new…

ASK ME EDITING | We need to talk about Twitter

Ask me editing

Hello and welcome to Ask Me Editing, the publishing and writing advice column which puts the ‘semi-qualified to do this’ back in semi-colon. And the…