Social Media for Writers: LinkedIn Edition

Building Blocs

Sophie Byrne shares her LinkedIn skills, explaining the ‘how to’s’ of social media for writers. Social Media for Writers: LinkedIn Edition Elle Hunt from The…

Finding your people: The Emerging Writers’ Festival

Events

Ahead of 2017’s Emerging Writers’ Festival, we have a chat to Artistic Director Izzy Roberts-Orr on what to expect from her first year at the…

Should I Write A Book?

Ideas

Scarlett Harris on not wanting to write a book—but wanting to want to write a book. Should I Write A Book? It seems like every…

Online Writing Courses | Supported by CAL Cultural Fund

Courses

Writers Bloc is proud to introduce, with support from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, an entirely free online series of workshops for emerging and established writers alike…

Anatomy of: A Personal Essay

Ideas

Writer and editor Khalid Warsame discusses personal essays and the divide between truth and fiction. If we believe The New Yorker, then apparently the “personal-essay…

My Publishing/Writing Love Triangle

Writer's Other Jobs

Rebecca Slater, on balancing working as a writer with a career in publishing. It is telling that, upon meeting both a writer and a publishing…

Deliberately Out Of Bounds: Tackling Writing and Work

Writer's Other Jobs

Kasey Symons on how in the world of writing you really can have too much of a good thing. “This sounds like you’re writing a…

So Long and Thanks For All The Phish

Editor's Desk

A word from our outgoing editor. I have news. I am stepping down as the Editor of Writers Bloc. Tragedy for me, yes, but excellent…

Anatomy of: Comedy Writing

Ideas

Award-winning comedian Laura Davis talks comedy writing and how a show comes together. Like most jobs in the creative industries, from the outside stand-up comedy…

Literary Natal

Literary Cities

Brendan Zietsch sends a Literary Postcard from Brazil’s cultural cradle. Obscure, impoverished, difficult to get to for almost everyone in the field — it was…