I hadn’t considered the question of what led me to become an author until I was asked it by some of my readers. And then, as I mentally retraced my steps over the five decades of my life before getting …
The writer laid bare
My poem The Allure of History was published in Cordite‘s chapbook Spoon Bending curated by Kent MacCarter. You can read it here: http://cordite.org.au/poetry/the-allure-of-history-%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%B2-%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8/…
Writing unfaithfully
To my mind, the craft of writing resides not in formulaic rules (e.g. ‘don’t use any adverbs’ or ‘no more than one adjective per noun’), but in that elusive process when our innermost, vaguest dreaming eventually shapes itself into a …
A Guest Blog Post by Susan Blumberg-Kason, American memoirist, on learning not to hold back in writing.
Six years ago I started writing a memoir about my marriage to a man from central China and how I thought I would thrive in this cross-cultural marriage. But I soon realized that my years of studying China and Mandarin …
The book that changed my (writing) life
All serious writers I know can name literary influences that have shaped their emotional landscapes, linguistic sensibilities, writing themes, literary tastes and perhaps even worldviews.
British novelist Ian McEwan, for example, cites Phillip Larkin’s poetry as his major influence, saying …
Really enjoyed doing this interview for Writers Victoria about writing grounded in time and place http://writersvictoria.org.au/news-views/post/writing-time-and-place-q-a-with-lee-kofman/#cmt278399
I’m teaching a class on writing time and place in fiction and creative non-fiction at Writers Victoria in April. Details here:
http://writersvictoria.org.au/what-s-on/event/writing-time-and-place…