Christmas Gift Guide | Writers Bloc

Editor's Desk

Christmas presents are difficult. To help you buy a genuinely useful and appreciated gift for the writer(s) in your life, we’ve sought out the Christmas…

Friends With Internets: Adventures Writing from Home

Ideas

This post is one of a short series by Bridget Lutherborrow — Oh, internet, you delicious tiered cake of knowledge. For what it’s worth I…

On becoming, hope and promise

Ideas

I’ve just returned from a weekend in Adelaide, which included some time at the Adelaide Writers’ Week. I was pleasantly surprised by how accessible the…

English as a Foreign Language

Writer's Other Jobs

This is a “Writers’ Other Jobs” post by Ryan O’Neill When I was in my mid-twenties, I spent two and a half years in Rwanda,…

Foiled Escapism: Suburban Review No. 1

Review

This is a review by Rafael S.W. — Good writing can help you escape. Whether it’s because of this “strange thing: to hate your home”,or…

It Started as a Dare

Editor's Desk

This is a What’s My Scene post from Tiggy Johnson. – It started on Twitter. Someone said something about wanting to submit to a certain type…

NaNo insight with Hong X

Events

A quick NaNo quiz with Sydney’s NaNoWriMo Municipal Liaison Hong Xie — What’s your role with NaNoWriMo? I am currently one of the municipal liaisons…

Hanging in there?

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Hang in there, baby! Ah, November 18. More than halfway through the slog that is NaNoWriMo. If you’ve kept up with the 1,667 per day…

Do I Stay or Do I Go? Writing in Regional Areas

Ideas

This post was prompted by the EWF Hobart road show, and was written by Connor Tomas O’Brien. One of the great things about writing and…

NaNoWriMo post (NaNoWriMoPo?) | Writers Bloc

Events

At this, the eleven-day mark of NaNoWriMo, I’ve heard more than one person talk about throwing in the towel. Fixated on the word-count, 50,000 words…