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03 Apr, 2016

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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Memoir

03 Apr, 2016

My Year Without Writing

Maggie MacKellar

Culture

04 Jul, 2016

The Space of Hours

Jerath Head

Is it best to take your time with books that are difficult to read? There are reading groups around the world devoting decades to one. ‘Dear Wakeans, It’s our first meeting back at Avid for the year next week. Hope to see you all there. At the last meeting we actually finished the third chapter. […]

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Culture

04 Jul, 2016

The Space of Hours

Jerath Head

Fiction

01 Mar, 2010

The Singing Tree

Colin Batrouney

(This story is a chapter from a longer work in progress, A Thousand Benedictions.) For a reason Mr Tamsin made clear at the beginning of the course, which Joel now strained to recall, feedback in Creative Writing for Beginners was conducted in pairs. Because Mr Tamsin’s cruelty was not always subtle, he had paired Joel […]

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Fiction

01 Mar, 2010

The Singing Tree

Colin Batrouney

Culture

08 Jan, 2015

Loving Sandra: My Partner in Crime

Lindsay Simpson

January 2008. I am lying on my stomach on the sandstone rocks at McIvers Baths in Coogee, reading The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. A few streets behind me, on the top floor of a 60s brick apartment, my best friend is dying. She is forty-nine. She has, although I do not know it, […]

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Culture

08 Jan, 2015

Loving Sandra: My Partner in Crime

Lindsay Simpson

Lost and Found in America: Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild

Culture

15 Apr, 2015

Lost and Found in America: Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild

Melissa Fagan

In May 1990, after graduating from Emory University, 22-year-old Chris McCandless told his parents he was taking a road trip. ‘I think I’m going to disappear for a while,’ he said. Over the next few months he abandoned his car in a riverbed, gave what was left of his college trust fund to Oxfam, destroyed […]

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Culture

15 Apr, 2015

Lost and Found in America: Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild

Melissa Fagan

Notes from the Underground: Why Bret Easton Ellis Fails on Film

Culture

24 Jan, 2012

Notes from the Underground: Why Bret Easton Ellis Fails on Film

Bethanie Blanchard

‘They had made a movie about us. The movie was based on a book written by someone we knew.’ So Bret Easton Ellis begins his new novel, Imperial Bedrooms, with characteristic metafiction, and like some blob from a 1950s horror film, in seeps the external world to the imagined one of the novel. Ellis’s work […]

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Culture

24 Jan, 2012

Notes from the Underground: Why Bret Easton Ellis Fails on Film

Bethanie Blanchard

The Mother is Restless and She Doesn’t Know Why

Extracts

04 Feb, 2026

The Mother is Restless and She Doesn’t Know Why

Gemma Parker

I begin to lose words. ‘Let’s turn the page,’ I say to my son in a stationery store. He snorts with laughter. ‘Do you mean go to the next aisle?’ I nod absently. I start to replace nouns with sounds – ‘Where’s the flippy?’ I ask my daughter. I mix up my words – ‘Get […]

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Extracts

04 Feb, 2026

The Mother is Restless and She Doesn’t Know Why

Gemma Parker

Interview

04 Oct, 2014

Conversation with Alissa Nutting

Bethanie Blanchard

Last year, it became difficult to escape the presence of a particularly provocative book cover. Ostensibly showing the front of an unbuttoned pale pink gingham dress, the cover focuses upon an open buttonhole which is puckered slightly, undeniably suggestive of a vulva. Where the cover was evocative, the contents were explicit, and the novel, Tampa, […]

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Interview

04 Oct, 2014

Conversation with Alissa Nutting

Bethanie Blanchard

Interview

01 Oct, 2013

Conversation with Laurent Binet

Sam Twyford-Moore

Laurent Binet’s HHhH was released in 2010 in his native France to wide critical acclaim, winning the coveted Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman, the famed prize for a debut novel. The English translation, by Sam Taylor, was released in 2012 and came with testimonials from Bret Easton Ellis and Martin Amis on the front cover […]

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Interview

01 Oct, 2013

Conversation with Laurent Binet

Sam Twyford-Moore

Keep Calm and Carry On: An Unexpected Path to Publication

Culture

30 Mar, 2013

Keep Calm and Carry On: An Unexpected Path to Publication

Hannah Kent

Just over two years ago, I was – to put it plainly – shitting myself. It was January 2011, and the novel I needed to write, the historical novel that was to be the creative component of my PhD in Creative Writing at Flinders University, could no longer be avoided. While, in the first few […]

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Culture

30 Mar, 2013

Keep Calm and Carry On: An Unexpected Path to Publication

Hannah Kent

We Are The World: The Dave Eggers Phenomenon

Culture

07 Jan, 2013

We Are The World: The Dave Eggers Phenomenon

Caroline Hamilton

The American author Rick Moody once referred to his friend and colleague Dave Eggers as ‘the Bono of literature’. Something of a backhanded compliment, Moody’s comment was an attempt to celebrate Eggers’s energetic involvement in projects designed to practically improve the state of the world. Bono, the singer for an internationally successful rock band, changed […]

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Culture

07 Jan, 2013

We Are The World: The Dave Eggers Phenomenon

Caroline Hamilton

Weirding English: The New Scripture of the Suburbs in Omar Musa’s Here Come the Dogs

Culture

11 Oct, 2015

Weirding English: The New Scripture of the Suburbs in Omar Musa’s Here Come the Dogs

Ruth McHugh-Dillon

BBC Culture recently ran a poll on the best novels published in English since 2000 (as strange, one newspaper pointed out, as asking how your year was in January). It threw up a predictable bias: all authors, bar one, were American or English. Yet aside from the list’s arbitrary parameters – why poll only American […]

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Culture

11 Oct, 2015

Weirding English: The New Scripture of the Suburbs in Omar Musa’s Here Come the Dogs

Ruth McHugh-Dillon

Fiction

24 Jan, 2012

Harvey Street

Peggy Frew

People step carefully through the doorway, as if not trusting the floor. One by one they move into the hall. The man before me has his hands clasped behind his back, his shoulders hunched and his head poked forward. He takes slow, spiky steps like a wading bird. The estate agent stands to one side […]

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Fiction

24 Jan, 2012

Harvey Street

Peggy Frew

Fiction

01 Oct, 2010

Nothing Broken

Annie Condon

I knock on the door and take a step back. Clare, the new graduate, smiles tightly at me. Her dark hair falls to her shoulders in spirals. She has large brown eyes, and she has a small scar near the corner of her mouth. She performed well in the interviews, apparently, but our team leader […]

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Fiction

01 Oct, 2010