Allies in Creative Writing
Eliah blames the English teachers for killing the student’s muse, for making it difficult for them to write because they were receiving corrections. I have a different take.
Tag: Australian literature
Podcast || Interview with Stephanie Bishop author of Man Out Of Time
Australian author Stephanie Bishop has written three novels; The Singer, The Other Side Of The World and most recently Man Out of Time. The Other Side of the World was awarded the 2015 Readings Prize and shortlisted for the Australian Vogel, NSW and Victorian Premiers Award, longlisted for the Stella Prize and named literary fiction book of the year at the ABIAs. Man out of Time was published in 2018 and tells the story of a disappearing father and the trails of logic that his daughter Stella and wife Frances must follow through memory and time. They have a troubled visual relationship and draws heavily on autobiography—but…
Rethinking Voss || Jonathan Dunk
To summarize violently: the transcendent, essentialist reading of White does him a great disservice. There is no meaningful opposition between the spiritual and the performative in White’s work; his characters perform their meaning, move in their own structures of feeling.
Emplacement
by Jessica White ‘One can never fault a Brisbane winter,’ I smugly tell my friends in the south. The air is mild, the light golden, and one only needs a jumper in the evenings. Come summer, though, it’s a different story. I’m far from smug when I’m lying on the couch before a fan blowing hot air into my face. I’ve never lived in a home with air-conditioning and neither do I want to; I resent the sense of being boxed in. On oppressive days I usually go to public places such as a pub or the State Library, but…
A Short History Of My Sentimental Education
By Moreno Giovannoni A Sentimental Education My father who died a few weeks ago left me a legacy. He left me the Italian language and Italy and he left me a book. Working backwards through that list of three, the book he left buried inside me and I had to work hard to make it come out. The Italian language he left all around me although over time it became tarnished. But that’s OK. You can’t live in a foreign country like Australia all your life and not start to lose the pristine first language of your youth. Italy itself has…
“Humor is vengeance.”
by Roanna Gonsalves The first time I heard the line “Humor is vengeance”, something surged in my brain and my body. I understood its outside as well as its inside, the pitter pat patter of its near perfect dactylic feet, the subatomic particles in its electric charge. Hunting it down, I found it in the second part of Paul Beatty’s Introduction to Hokum: An anthology of African American humour (Bloomsbury, 2006). I knew what Beatty meant by “Humor is vengeance.” I’ve channeled his words to explain my own work in The Permanent Resident, a collection of short fiction published in…