Anthony Panegyres on writing and reading

Over a decade ago, I went through a mini Hiaasen phase and read at least three of his novels. They were irreverent, fast paced escapes but t...

I'd like to thank Carol Ryles for inviting me to be a panelist. It was actually fun. Thanks to Guy Salvidge, Lee Battersby, Martin Livin...

I'll be at the KSP centre this Sunday on the writing panel 'Breaking the Rules'. I believe in being a small-time writing crim an...

On place: 'I don't feel sentimental about these things in any sloppy way, but I do feel a strong emotion remembering things, remem...

My review of Karen Russell'  Swamplandia on   Meanjin' s website: http://meanjin.com.au/blog/post/swamplandia-by-karen-russell-201...

Book Review: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (2011) Robin Pen, my resident book guru at Planet Books (in Perth), ensured me that Swampl...

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...