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Pip Smith I had a lot of trouble writing this last blog post. It was meant to be an attempt

… read more Women from Fetters to Letters

Pip Smith What makes a good reading? I have no idea. Or rather, I only have smatterings of vague hunches.

… read more On Reading Out Loud, with the Help of James Ellroy

Bunyip: (say ‘bunyuhp) noun 1. an imaginary creature of Aboriginal legend, said to haunt rushy swamps and billabongs. 2. Obsolete a full-grown beast (def. 2) which has remain unbranded.

… read more Southerly launches a new issue, A Nest of Bunyips

Pip Smith Over the past few years, it seems many of the communities that tend to swarm around microphones –

… read more A Note or Two on the Storytelling Epidemic, and a Cursory Review of Rocket Clock Story Slam

Pip Smith,    Hello Slightly More Northern Southerly Readers, Though I am usually Sydney-based, this month I’m coming to you,

… read more Melbourne

Many thanks to our March guest, Kate Middleton. The next few weeks shall be turned over to Pip Smith, whose

… read more Our next guest writer, Pip Smith.

Kate Middleton This past week I gave a talk on ekphrasis and the ways in which pictures in themselves may

… read more Icarus Downstage, Right: Writing Art

Kate Middleton While I often deny the word “guilty” in relation to pleasures, I admit the phrase has its attractions

… read more Guilty Pleasures (Lights Out! Meet in the kitchen in one hour for a Midnight Feast!)