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Allies in Creative Writing

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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

Obstacles in Creative Writing

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

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

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

Cashing in on Refugees

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

Anzac Day Blues

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

Untold? Or unseen and unheard?

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

Ghosts

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

Art and Artifice

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

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