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Eliah blames the English teachers for killing the student’s muse, for making it difficult for them to write because they

… read more Allies in Creative Writing

My friend Sarah and I ran a creative writing workshop out of a musty classroom in the Western suburbs. We

… read more Obstacles in Creative Writing

She has something new to offer. Can she be new again? I mean ‘new’ in the sense of reborn. ‘New’

… read more New and Dying Again: on first hearing FKA Twigs’ Cellophane

Hey Debby, it’s not cute to perpetuate stereotypes about other communities and capitalise on their experiences by opting to tell

… read more Cashing in on Refugees

Another Anzac Day comes on down the pipe. It always feels like the real Australia Day to me. As if

… read more Anzac Day Blues

Go-betweens like me, born to visibly different immigrant parents, are always being asked where we’re “really” from, and often wondering

… read more Untold? Or unseen and unheard?

The question of whose story it is to tell is one that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately, especially

… read more Ghosts

I’ve been thinking a lot about stories, and storytelling lately. I suppose I should — after all, I’m a writer. Aren’t

… read more Art and Artifice