Mental Health and Memoir
The challenges of mixing memories with mental health. By Katerina Bryant.
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The challenges of mixing memories with mental health. By Katerina Bryant.
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Continue readingAfter releasing a collection of essays on the struggles and scrapes of the working artist, As Dire as its Title: Writings on the Daily Struggles of the Working Artist, musician/writer Cam Gilmour writes about what it’s like to pour your…
Continue readingPRISM’s executive editor Clara Kumagai calls on you haters to get writing.
Continue readingSandra Hajda on what it means to write – and be read – in the internet age.
Continue reading1. It’s not a life. It’s a profession, a hobby, an activity or an obsession. Life goes on regardless of it. In fact, life doesn’t care whether I write or not. Thank you life. 2. If I desperately have to…
Continue readingIs the creative writing course the new ‘Grub Street’? Kim Sherwood investigates.
Continue readingOnce a month we’re swapping articles with Canadian literary magazine PRISM to share our writers with a wider audience.
Continue readingOnce a month we’re swapping articles with Canadian literary magazine PRISM to share our writers with a wider audience.
Continue readingYesterday, I had a brilliant idea for this column. I stood in the doorway of my lounge room and thought, Yes, that’s it; that will roll off the keyboard and be something people want to read and all will be…
Continue readingOnline editor Megan Anderson gives up a roof, friends and financial stability to write around Europe.
Continue readingPaul Mitchell on open readers at poetry evenings – and the bad first impressions that can be made.
Continue readingSocial media isn’t exactly new, but it’s still something that writers have only recently begun experimenting with.
Continue readingPaul Mitchell examines the editorial biases at work in the Australian poetry community.
Continue readingWhen I was a writing student at RMIT (twice), I was told that if I ever worked as a freelance journalist (an ill-advised career path), the best way to get published was to send a pitch to an editor. Send…
Continue readingOnline editor Megan Anderson gives up a roof, friends and financial stability to write around Europe.
Continue readingOnline editor Megan Anderson gives up a roof, friends and financial stability to write around Europe.
Continue readingI once thought there was only one kind of rejection slip/email: a bad one. Dear Fool, we’ve had a record number of submissions by so many amazingly talented writers and we are so sorry that we couldn’t include yours on…
Continue readingOnline editor Megan Anderson gives up a roof, friends and financial stability to write around Europe.
Continue readingIt should be obvious that a quote about writing that has its origin in a comedy movie starring Billy Crystal wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.
Continue readingAdam Ford tracks down poets and asks them the most difficult of questions: ‘Why do you write poetry?’
Continue readingThe Meditations is a curated series of reflections on writing and storytelling from contributors to Going Down Swinging No. 35. This reflection comes from Chloe Wilson on her poem ‘Lyudmila Pavlichenko, From the Orchard’. Only the witnessed kills count. No one…
Continue readingPaul Mitchell on finding the space to write.
Continue readingThe Meditations is a curated series of reflections on writing and storytelling from contributors to Going Down Swinging No. 35. This reflection comes from Kavita Bedford on her piece ‘The Most Northern Southern City’. In Baltimore, race was articulated daily. People…
Continue readingThe Meditations is a curated series of reflections on writing and storytelling from contributors to Going Down Swinging No. 35. This reflection comes from Amaryllis Gacioppo on her piece ‘Interstate 15’. It was Whisky Pete who waved us out of Nevada, a…
Continue readingThe Meditations is a curated series of reflections on writing and storytelling from contributors to Going Down Swinging No. 35. This reflection comes from Jonathon Lawrence on his short story ‘Kujiragatari (Whale Story)’. Once we have captured the animals, we drag…
Continue readingAdam Ford tracks down poets and asks them the most difficult of questions: ‘Why do you write poetry?’
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