Hot Chicks With Big Brains

Hot Chicks With Big Brains

Bloc Features

This featured piece was originally published by Hot Chicks with Big Brains. Hot Chicks with Big Brains (HCwBB) is an interview series determined to challenge the way…

Best Australian Poems 2015 | Writers Bloc

Review

This is a review, written by Ali Schnabel of The Best Australian Poems 2015.  Various; edited by Geoff Page In the thirteenth year of the landmark Best Australian…

Interview | Fiona Wright | Writers Bloc

Interview

This is an interview with Sydney author Fiona Wright. Small Acts of Disappearance is a collection of personal essays by poet and critic Fiona Wright about her…

Interview with Dan Marshall | Writers Bloc

Interview

A Bright Young Things Exclusive. Each month we speak to an emerging writer about their first book. Last week Geoff spoke with Dan Marshall, author…

Review | The End of Seeing

Review

This is a review of The End of Seeing by Christy Collins, published by Seizure Online. Ana DuChamp’s husband Nick is a photojournalist from Melbourne.…

Building Blocs | Book Deal

Building Blocs

This is a Building Blocs piece, in which we discuss the getting of book deals. Here at Writers Bloc, we do our best to answer…

How to Live | Writers Bloc

Bloc Features

A Writers Bloc workshop feature  How to Live by James Arbuthnott Part 1 I sit at a shopping trolley filled with beer. A radio tied to…

One Weird Reason to Quit Your Novel Today!

Ideas

This is an Ideas piece by poet and proud recovering novelist Adam Ford. Quitting my novel was the best thing I’ve ever done as a…

Horsepower | Writers Bloc

Writer's Other Jobs

This is a Writers’ Other Jobs piece by Tim McGuire. I moved to London a few months before I turned twenty-three. I’d fallen into a…

Summer of ’65 | Writers Bloc

Events

This is a reflection on the 2015 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival by Liam Pieper. The sun has gone down on the Ubud 2015 Writers & Readers…