Bridging the Writer/Non-Writer Divide
August 15, 2016
Do writing events perpetuate the myth of the divinely inspired author? Antony Scholefield considers.
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Do writing events perpetuate the myth of the divinely inspired author? Antony Scholefield considers.
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Publishers should look to television to engage with audiences, writes Paul Mitchell.
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The challenges of mixing memories with mental health. By Katerina Bryant.
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Shannon McKeogh asks: should we read our diaries for self-help?
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Paul Mitchell on the pressure creative writing academics face to maintain their vocations.
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Omar J. Sakr learns to deal with the silence that comes with freelancing.
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Fiona Broom tries to find the most elusive of powers.
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After 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…
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PRISM’s executive editor Clara Kumagai calls on you haters to get writing.
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Sandra Hajda on what it means to write – and be read – in the internet age.
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1. 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…
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Is the creative writing course the new ‘Grub Street’? Kim Sherwood investigates.
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Once a month we’re swapping articles with Canadian literary magazine PRISM to share our writers with a wider audience.
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Once a month we’re swapping articles with Canadian literary magazine PRISM to share our writers with a wider audience.
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Yesterday, 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…
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Online editor Megan Anderson gives up a roof, friends and financial stability to write around Europe.
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Paul Mitchell on open readers at poetry evenings – and the bad first impressions that can be made.
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Social media isn’t exactly new, but it’s still something that writers have only recently begun experimenting with.
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Paul Mitchell examines the editorial biases at work in the Australian poetry community.
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When 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…
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Online editor Megan Anderson gives up a roof, friends and financial stability to write around Europe.
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Online editor Megan Anderson gives up a roof, friends and financial stability to write around Europe.
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I 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…
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Online editor Megan Anderson gives up a roof, friends and financial stability to write around Europe.
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It 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.
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Adam Ford tracks down poets and asks them the most difficult of questions: ‘Why do you write poetry?’
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The 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…
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Paul Mitchell on finding the space to write.
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The Meditations is a curated series of reflections on writing and storytelling from contributors to Going Down Swinging #35. This reflection comes from Kavita Bedford on her piece ‘The Most Northern Southern City’. In Baltimore, race was articulated daily. People referred…
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The 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…
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