It’s been over four years since I last had a dedicated writing space. Recently I’ve been wondering about the effect of this absence on both my creativity and productivity. I have a good track record with desks: I love them …
The writer laid bare
I’m terribly excited to be launching a memoir of mental illness The Good Greek Girl (Jane Curry Publishing) by the wonderful writer Maria Katsonis, whom I had the pleasure of mentoring during the writing of this book.
If you can, …
How to tame a book (and its author).
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 …