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 …
The writer laid bare
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.…
My most recent radio interview about The Dangerous Bride was with New Zealand’s national radio. If you like to listen, the podcast is here: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/20164606/author-lee-kofman-on-love-and-sexual-freedom…
ArtsHub website just re-published my podcast for Writers Victoria where I suggest that being uncomfortable is essential for a writer. Here is the link if you’d like to listen to our conversation https://lnkd.in/bS7je5D…