This week’s Bloc Feature, ‘Sick Leave: A Year of Living Horizontally’ by Anna Barnes, was originally published in issue 23 of Kill Your Darlings journal. You can…

This is an interview with Brisbane author Krissy Kneen. Krissy Kneen is a writer and bookseller in Brisbane who shot to prominence with her 2009 memoir, Affection: A…

This is a The Book That piece, by Anna-Spargo Ryan. When I was a little girl my mother worked part-time in the Law faculty at…

Writers Bloc, is a place for writers, and all good writers are great readers. Here at the Bloc we love reading. We also like wine…

This is a The Book That… post from award-winning Indigenous Australian writer Ellen van Neerven. You can check out her website here, and her Twitter here. by It…

This is a review of The Uncanny Love of Jimmy Panagakos, a novella by Beth Hill. Reviewed by Ali Schnabel A tale of the secrets and loneliness…

This is an extract from The Uncanny Love of Jimmy Panagakos by Beth Hill. Anthea braced herself against the bright heat of the sun as…

A Literary Cities piece by Sofija Stefanovic. I was going on a six-week holiday to Europe. A few weeks before leaving Australia, I’d had my…

This is an extract from our Bloc Club book Home Is Burning  by Dan Marshall (Hachette) “I fucking love it here,” I said like a spoiled…

OK. So we don’t want to panic you, but you have very little time to apply for a 24-carat rad opportunity. Jacky Winter Gardens, an…