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Visual artist Abdullah M I Sayed and writer Felicity Castagna reflect on art, writing and exercise. Felicity Castagna One of

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by Felicity Castagna I went into labour with my first child while I was hunched over the final manuscript for

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by Felicity Castagna A lot of space in literary circles has been given of late to trying to define what

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by Felicity Castagna The writer John Gardner famously said that there are only two plots in fiction—a person goes on

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An enormous thanks to Samuel Wagan Watson for his wonderful posts. Our blogger for this month is Felicity Castagna. Her

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by Samuel Wagan Watson   In the past few weeks I was hoping that, as a weekly Blogger for Southerly,

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by Samuel Wagan Watson Writing is a misdemeanour of self-indulgence; therefore an escalated fit of writing could be considered blatant

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by Samuel Wagan Watson My next collection of poetry should now be a semi-completed manuscript in the custody of my

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