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How to Bend Language to Your Will (in Eight Easy Steps)

‘What’s in a name?’ Voldemort might ask. ‘A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.’ But would it? Would a Blose™, with a smell to ‘blow...
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Crossing the Nullarbor: Part One
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Lingua Fracas
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The Guinea Pig Show

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I Believe in Magic

It’s Christmas Eve, 2006. I’m in Newcastle, spending Christmas with my family. In Newcastle the air is cool even in summer and it feels rich with magic, the way...
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Poetry and Advertising: a Kinship

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Stories and Poems:

Stories & Poems

Excerpt from 'Little Monsters'

A sneak preview from Briohny Doyle's <i>Going Down Swinging #33</i> essay, Little Monsters.
Stories & Poems

Grindingly Awful Father Figures: a Sampler
MILLENNIAL PINK

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GDS#38, Stories & Poems

Dance of the Nocturnals

From the archives

in a silent way

when he finished work he saw how lovely it was to deal with the end of autumn, to walk out of the office, leave behind the all-day geometry of...
Stories & Poems

Sometimes Poems...

On Writing:

On Writing

Prism Writing Prompt: Haters Gonna Hate

PRISM's executive editor Clara Kumagai calls on you haters to get writing.
On Writing

Bridging the Writer/Non-Writer Divide
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Kevin Brophy
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Robbie Coburn

On Writing

Sender Beware: Editorial Bias in Australian Poetry

Paul Mitchell examines the editorial biases at work in the Australian poetry community.
On Writing

What Television Teaches Us About Literary Fiction

The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

The fact that Jess is shown reading books LIKE Catcher in the Rye conspicuously to get Rory’s attention is just … so … teenage boy type.
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

Anne Frank's Diary
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

Backlash by Susan Faludi

The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney

One thing I did wonder when reading this is what will the world learn from Gilmore Girls thousands of years into the future?
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown