Anthony Panegyres on writing and reading

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Aurealis judges recently stated that it was an epic year for Australia...

'Imitation is deeply rooted as a form of cultural transmission; we tell our old stories again and again.' Nicholas Delbanco   ...

Food, the Night Sky and the Aurealis Awards Dinner in Sydney In the movie A Touch of Spice the Pappou says to his grandson, Fanis, that ...

Currently Reading   I've just finished The House on  Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, a novella made up of poetic vignettes set i...

Books Out of Print I am not supposed to walk much—I do a little—but sport has become more of the seated viewer variety. And as for ...

Writers [on Writing], Carolyn Chute "I am not much of a reader. No time." After I simmered down I began to value Chute...

I've read that Ben Payne has been editor at ASIM and Aurealis, and co-editor (with Alisa Krasonstein) of the Ditmar Award winning  2012 ...

Writers on Writing [Rosellen Brown] On characters: "... our first obligation is to create interesting, suggestive, realistic, possi...

Writers [on Writing]: Anne Bernay s "No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep."

Writers [on Writing]: Saul Bellow On reading literary novels in the electronic age: ‘The little evidence we have suggests that...

Writers [on Writing]: Rick Bass "The wild landscape becomes the widened boundaries of my life."

Aurealis Award Finalist: 'Reading Coffee' Euphoric? Gracious? Humbled? A 'yes' to all three on being announced a finalis...

Writers [on Writing]: Russell Banks In his comical essay, Russell Banks uses a personal anecdote to convey the idea that we spin fict...

Andre Aciman, Alexandria and my Pappou Andre Aciman is a displaced Alexandrian. My Pappou on my father's side was the same, albeit it ...

'Writers [on Writing]. Collected Essays from THE NEW YORK TIMES' There is no mythical spring that all writers draw from. Some w...