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What responsibilities do we have when publishing works that come from places of pain?
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 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 readingOnline editor Megan Anderson gives up a roof, friends and financial stability to write around Europe.
Continue readingA new recipe book from Chris Nguyen depoliticises the act of seeking refuge.
Continue readingCrime Factory editor and publisher Liam Jose points out that, despite a fierce Lee cult following, “it seems stupid that there hasn’t been much written about him”.
Continue readingMegan Anderson chats to Beat legend Hettie Jones.
Continue readingPhoto / Zina Lebedeva There were no Christmas trees at Valery Petrovskiy’s reading party at the National Library of Chuvash last Thursday. “No, there was no Christmas tree there; [the] event took place as if on board of an aircraft,”…
Continue readingPhoto / Steffen Pedersen From storytelling to social work, rural Victorian writer Neil Boyack is a man with a fair bit to talk about. He’s also just released his debut poetry collection, Self Help and Other Works. I talked words,…
Continue readingWriters have changed. No more are they sitting pretty in brothels and brocade drawing rooms diligently scribbling into their goat paper. No more are they sipping absinthe in bohemian cafes while etching poems into their skin. Heavens, no. Today’s young…
Continue readingMegan Anderson reads visual artist Tai Snaith’s first picture book, The Family Hour, to her nephew.
Continue reading“Hello?” “Hello, are you there?” “What?!” “Hello? I’LL CALL YOU BACK ON THE LANDLINE.” It’s Thursday night and I’m trying to talk spoken word with past Going Down Swinging editor Lisa Greenaway – but she can’t hear me. As the…
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