Having come from the world of music (well, punk rock, which to some might not count), Iām all too familiar with the curse of the sophomore album. A band bursts onto the scene with a killer debut only to come …
The writer laid bare
For the first time ever I was interviewed about my micro-lit writing. And about my reading too, which is always great to talk about. Of course, it’s a micro-interview 
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Writing the Silences: Guest Post by Alice Nelson
Many years ago, in one of those serendipitous but fateful-feeling writing discoveries, I came across an essay by the American poet Louise Gluck. In her poetry, Gluck said, she was attracted to gaps and ellipsis, to disruption and hesitation, to …
My poem Permanence is being read by a professional actress, then discussed by Coffee Podcast hosts.…
A Book in Identity Crisis: Guest Post by Amra Pajalic
I first started writing my recently completed memoir, Things Nobody Knows But Me, when I was doing my Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing. I titled it then Sins of the Mother. I was 20-years-old and even though I …
Chagall’s Curse
Two years ago I pitched a short memoir to a notable Australian literary magazine. It was a story from my childhood about how I helped my parents, then dissidents in the Soviet Union, to hide forbidden literature during a KGB …