Anthony Panegyres on writing and reading

Jonathan Shaw is an Australian poet, who also provides regular commentary on a few literary journals. His blog is of interest to any reader,...

Today, I was on a panel at Swancon about the writing lifestyle. Which, for me as a long short story writer, largely relates to holidays and ...

My latest story "Submerging" will be in the pages of Overland Literary Journal 214, Autumn. It'll be launched this evening i...

Like a jazz piano player, a good writer of short crime fiction didn't think he knew his job unless he could improvise on all twelve keys...

The purpose of literature is to Delight. To create or endorse the scholastic is a craven desire. David Mamet, The Humble Genre Novel, Some...

Great to see Dreaming of Djinn ed. Liz Grzyb as a finalist for the best anthology. A huge huzzah to all the writers, publishers and editors...

Books Read in 2013 The 25 books I read in 2013 are listed below: Levant: Splendour and Castastrophe in the Mediterranean Philip M...

In 2013, I read 106 'long' short stories. Finalising a list of 25 highly recommended stories is never easy but these were m...

In the UK on holidays, so I'll post my usual year in review regarding reading and writing when I'm back in Australia. It'll incl...

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...