This is a Building Blocs piece about the Writers Bloc Workshop. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in possession of a draft…

This is a review of Patti Smith’s new book M Train. By Charles Cave. If your first introduction to Patti Smith is her new book, M…

On Tuesday night we spoke to Jane Rawson as part of our monthly Bright Young Things book club. She was really generous and I had a…

This is a reflection on National Young Writers Festival by Chloe Escott  I’m a writer of both music and words. I’m also a trans woman who only came…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

…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…