The writer Annie Dillard likens the process of writing to taming. She writes in her now-seminal book, ’On Writing’:
A work in progress quickly becomes feral… it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and
My most recent publication is an essay The Honesty Problem that appears in the latest issue of Meanjin. The essay is about my ongoing struggle to be emotionally honest in my work.
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The Dangerous Bride just received another review, this time in The Newtown Review of Books: ‘Kofman’s is a refreshing voice on the Australian literary scene.’ Walter Mason. The full text is here:
http://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/2015/02/24/lee-kofman-dangerous-bride-memoir-love-gods-geography-reviewed-walter-mason/…
A Guest Post from Natasha Lester: How I Quit my Job to Become a Writer
I was too scared to become a writer twenty years ago when I went to uni. I thought being a writer wasn’t really a job. There were no writing degrees then like there are now. The closest thing was journalism …
Excursions into the (writing) wilderness
Two years into struggling to write some coherent chapters for my memoir The Dangerous Bride, and feeling overwhelmed by all the thinking and research, I took several months break to reconsider whether I could actually do this. Then, with …
I’ve got an essay in the forthcoming anthology on motherhood Mothermorphosis edited by Monica Dux. It’ll be released in April this year and this book was already mentioned amongst the anticipated books of 2015 in The Australian and in …