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Writing and

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by Alison Whittaker   The writer and the writing life, two off-cut conversations that have planted themselves anew in 2017.

Sovrenaissance

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by Alison Whittaker Wangal land, in the memory of colonial records at least, has never been hotter. Today while I

Why do we bother to write?

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by Roanna Gonsalves     A few days ago, the National Human Rights Commission in India noted the suspicious deaths,

Tracing body-and-bloodlines

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by Roanna Gonsalves     A book, like a person, holds a tangle of ancestors within it. Sometimes, tracing the

The double lives of writers

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by Roanna Gonsalves Most aspiring writers across the world face conflicting demands in the pursuit of a literary career. We

“Humor is vengeance.”

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by Roanna Gonsalves The first time I heard the line “Humor is vengeance”, something surged in my brain and my

December Monthly Blogger – Best Southerly Blogs of 2016

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Many thanks to Nic Low for a fantastic month of blogging. To see out 2016, this month we’re featuring some

The secret history of Australia’s unpublished literature

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Nic Low For five of us over the last week, life’s been defined by the chug-and-whir of digital copiers sucking

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