This is a Building Blocs piece in which, Sam Ryan from SAYSO talks tax for writers. I’m a writer! I wrote some things! I’m getting paid for…

A Literary Cities piece on Dunedin, by Phoebe Paterson de Heer. I didn’t mean to live in Dunedin. My partner, Ryan and I really were just passing through.…

Hello and welcome to Ask Me Editing, the publishing agony aunt column which rhymes Editing and Anything, which is basically poetry. Q: Getting off this…

This is a giveaway, where we do what it says on the tin – give something away. Our friends at the The Emerging Writers’ Festival  have given…

Cameron Colwell on: the Sydney Writers’ Festival, art, labour and Hanya Yanagihara. Hanya Yanagihara wrote all three-hundred thousand-something words of her Booker winner, A Little…

This is a Book That piece by Bri Lee about the joys/perils of reading Helen Garner. I’m in the middle of writing my first book and it’s:…

A Literary Cities piece on Lisbon, by Carlotta Eden. Lisbon, really, is a poet’s city: second-hand book markets down every side street, blistered walls outside famous literary hide-outs…

This is Reality Testing, a new column where two of the smartest people we could find (on Twitter) Khalid Warsame and Joshua Barnes fight over an idea. Discussed: novels…

This is an ideas piece about how writing and existential crises go together like Scrabble and Zen. Six months ago I sat in the beer…

This is the Writers Bloc Guide to the Emerging Writers’ Festival. The Emerging Writers’ Festival is an annual festival dedicated to new writers – a place…