Interviews
Conversation with Rachel Kushner
Alice Cottrell
The author of the Man Booker-shortlisted The Mars Room on guilt, privilege, empathy and the bizarre realities of the US prison system.
Interviews
Conversation with Ling Ma
Alan Vaarwerk
The author of hit debut Severance on the dangers and comforts of routine, reclaiming space, and the visceral pleasure of destroying New York in fiction.
Memoir
The Method and the Madness
Laura Elizabeth Woollett
For writers who ascribe to the practice of ‘method writing’, the ability to fully inhabit a character’s tastes, habits and personality can be creatively rewarding and exhilarating. But is the practice sustainable? What happens when method writing goes too far?
Culture
Trying to Breathe
Kaya Wilson
The controversial Belgian film Girl, about a young trans ballerina, is intended as an exercise in intimacy – but its inability to see its protagonist as more than her body embodies the problem with the cis gaze in trans stories.
Essays
Does It Also Feel This Way To You?
Rebecca Varcoe
What good is art if you need a university degree to appreciate it? A community-focused street art festival in country Victoria not only brings colour and vibrancy to local streets, but prompts broader reflections on the ways we consume, value and bond over art.
News
Science Fiction, Fantastical, Supernatural
Kill Your Darlings
Melbourne: Join acclaimed author and publisher Angela Meyer in this unique writing course all about long-form speculative fiction.
KYD Mentors Program
Applications are now open for unique, comprehensive and structured 6-month editorial mentorships with Benjamin Law, Bri Lee, Danielle Binks or Rebecca Starford.
News
Unpublished Manuscript Award now open!
Kill Your Darlings
Now in our third year of supporting the development of early-career authors – you could win $4000 and a week-long Varuna residency! Entries close 30 April!
News
Announcing the KYD School Writing Prize
Kill Your Darlings
Introducing a new award designed to develop, mentor, edit and publish the work of two writers from Australian secondary schools. Entries open 23 April!
News
First Book Club
Kill Your Darlings
Our April pick is Melissa Ferguson’s The Shining Wall (Transit Lounge), a fiercely feminist exploration of a post-apocalyptic future.
