Anthony Panegyres on writing and reading

That creativity lies on the other side of madness is commonplace, though popularly the madness with which art is associated is of the delusi...

Overland Literary Journa l is having its annual Subscriberthon. For me, it’s not about the gifts and packages Overland is offer...

Serious writing is not better; it has a different origin. It is writing what you have to write, what you hear in your mind.          You do...

Writers [on Writing]: Barbara Kingslover In actual word count, if the literary novels in my bookcase accurately represent human experienc...

A Few Years Ago A few years ago I despairingly forced myself to read Munro. I couldn't appreciate her style at all: overly descriptiv...

Locus Magazine Review of "Oleander: An Ottoman Tale" from Rich Horton The end of Rich Horton's Short Fiction Review in Locu...

Allow for Serendipity: Murdering themes or preconceived ideas. Writers are told all manner of 'rules': don't pull the readers...

Currently Reading (outside of this edition of Meanjin, which I've a story in ) : Richard Yates, Alice Munro, Philip Mansel and Michael...

Nalini Haynes' Dark Matter Review of my story "Oleander: An Ottoman Tale" from the Dreaming of Djinn Chrisaphina lives in a ...

Writers [on Writing]: Jamaica Kincaid I have noticed that when you know people who die, you catch it and end up dead, too. Jamaic...

My personal thought on writing fiction: A storyteller conveys an interesting plot. A writer of substance explores the human condition....

Sentence length: The Long and Short of it...or Just the Long of it I recently saw on my facebook account that Karen Russell is giving a ta...

Writers [on Writing]: Ward Just Novels have more to do with desire - translating desire into prose - and a temperament that accepts conc...

Writers [on Writing]: Diane Johnson Must a novel have a theme? If so, who is in charge of it? Diane Johnson, Pesky Themes Will Emerge Wh...

 Isobelle Carmody on Dreaming of Djinn, and Current Reads The renown Isobelle Carmody was the guest on Monday's Meanjin blog post a...