The Anxiety of Influence

Ideas

Is your writing original? Probably not. But that’s no reason to get stressed about it. Raphaelle Race dives into the sea of neurosis that is…

On Winning And Losing

Ideas

This is a Writers’ Other Jobs piece by Sunil Badami, who won the game show Temptation.  Like lots of writers, I’ve had more jobs than I’ve had…

Building Blocs – Narrative NonFiction

Bloc Features

Brendan James Murray, on the sometimes fine line between fact and fiction in narrative nonfiction.  There’s currently a turf-war being fought on the Australian literary…

Ask Me Editing | The Bad Romance Edition

Ask me editing

This is Ask Me Editing, our publishing advice column with Agony Un-Uncle Elizabeth Flux. Many years ago I worked in an office where I had…

Creative Cupid: Our Writing Mentor Program

Editor's Desk

Introducing Creative Cupid, our writing mentor program. Writing can be a lonely business. As a writer we have the privilege of spending time creating characters,…

The Art of Romance

Ideas

Justin Heazlewood, on the art of balancing a relationship and a creative career. When it comes to a choice of partner, there are two schools…

Writers’ Other Jobs | Soap Star

Writer's Other Jobs

Chiefly though, I’m an actor. A professional one. Which means I spend a lot of time at family gatherings justifying my career choice to relatives…

Eli Glasman on The Book That Gave Me YA Writing Guidance

Book That

This is a ‘The Book That…’ post from Eli Glasman. Eli Glasman’s debut novel, The Boy’s Own Manual to Being a Proper Jew (Sleepers Publishing), about a homosexual boy…

The Art of Adaptation

Ideas

This is Craig Hildebrand-Burke, on what the golden age of TV and Film adaptations means for writers. It’s Oscars season, which inevitably means a whole…

Leaving New York

Literary Cities

This is Scarlett Harris, with her Obligatory Leaving New York Essay. It all started with Joan Didion’s seminal “Goodbye to All That” essay in 1967…