Maggie MacKellar

Maggie MacKellar is a writer, shearers’ cook and occasional farm hand. Her books include the award-winning memoir When it Rains (2011). Her latest memoir, How to Get There (2014), is a rumination on love, writing and displacement. She is currently working on a novel and lives on the east coast of Tasmania with a farmer and her two children.

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My Year Without Writing

My Year Without Writing

Maggie MacKellar

Can the physical activity of writing eventually push a writer out the other side of inertia to discover personal meaning? I started keeping a diary twenty-five years ago. It’s eight hundred thousand words long. – Sarah Manguso My mother wrote in hieroglyphics. Every morning she would greet the first faint light with her notebook, her […]

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My Year Without Writing

My Year Without Writing

Maggie MacKellar