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 writer laid bare
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 …
A Guest Post from Peter Bishop, the former creative director of Varuna: On finding structure
Coming to the end of a writing project, I always feel –surprisingly– fretful and anxious rather than celebratory. When I actually feel I’ve finished I can feel quite panicky, and quite often I’ll start something else –sometimes within the hour.…