Anthony Panegyres on writing and reading

Pulitzer Board Madness Earlier this year in April, a furore justifiably erupted when the Pulitzer Board decided that not one of ...

I have a firm unwavering belief that a writer must be a reader. A writer, who carefully reads, absorbs techniques and tricks to enhance the...

"Never bother to say you'll sleep on anything. In the first place, you won't sleep; and in the second place, you've already...

Pulitzer Prize winning author, Richard Ford, was the editor of the The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992), an outstanding antho...

On Imagination Writers [on Writing]: Thomas Fleming Thomas Fleming agrees with the Cornell critic, Cushing Strout: "He (Cushing Strout)...

Writers [on Writing]: Louise Erdrich It's fascinating to read about Louise Erdrich's passion for Ojibwemowin, a language linked to...

"That pictograms, whether corporately or privately produced, may eventually unseat linguistic composition as the major communicative ac...

Brief Book Review: The  Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson (1889) Robert Louis Stevenson suffered ill health throughout ...

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 ...