Monthly Archives: March 2010
Reviews
Possibility and powerlessness: Andrew Porter’s The Theory of Light and Matter [review]
Thanks to our friends at Text Publishing, we have two copies of Andrew Porter’s The Theory of Light and Matter to give away. Details will appear in our April newsletter, which you can join here. The Theory of Light and Matter Andrew Porter Text Publishing RRP: $27.95 … Read more
Interviews, Issue One
Nicola Redhouse: ‘Being a writer certainly enriches my work as an editor’
It’s often said that writing and editing are two sides of one coin, and it’s not unusual to find a person who incorporates both into a literary life. So it is with Nicola Redhouse – by day, an editor at Scribe Publications, and by night, a fiction … Read more
Podcast
Inflamed: Chris Flynn on Kindling Torpedo
For the inaugural Killings podcast, I spoke with Torpedo‘s editor, Chris Flynn. Torpedo 7 was released just this week – and it’s only available in non-paper form. Chris caused a stir in local publishing channels by making Torpedo the first literary journal in Australia – and the … Read more
From the Editors
On women’s writing 2: Miles Franklin, Orange, sausage fests and ‘grimness’
The Miles Franklin longlist for 2010 has been announced – and with only three of the 12 writers women, the signs are ominous that there may be another sausage fest (aka all-male shortlist) this year. In strictly objective alphabetical order, the longlist is: Patrick Allington, Figurehead Peter … Read more
Interviews, Issue One
‘A form to call home’: Patrick Cullen’s short fiction
photo by Tim McLean Newcastle writer Patrick Cullen’s stories have been anthologised in those bastions of short fiction, Best Australian Stories and Sleepers Almanac, and his novel-in-stories, What Came Between, has been praised many times over. His short story about the friendship between Raymond Carver, Richard Ford and … Read more
Events
‘We tend to genuflect to writing’: Kill Your Darlings’ reviewing panel
On Wednesday night, for our ‘Feeding the Hand that Bites’ panel, Issue One Contributors Gideon Haigh and Anthony Morris, Kill Your Darlings Editor Rebecca Starford and Associate Editor Jo Case held forth on reviewing culture in Australia. Among the issues discussed were the distinction between reviewing and criticism, … Read more
Issue One
The Kill Your Darlings launches
It’s been a controlled sort of chaos for the Kill Your Darlings team for the last couple of weeks. Not only have we published and distributed our inaugural issue, but we have launched it in both Adelaide (as part of the Adelaide Writers’ Week program) and in … Read more
Interviews
Women, Writing and Indian English: A Conversation with Manju Kapur
Guest blogger Sukhmani Khorana interviewed New Delhi novelist Manju Kapur for Kill Your Darlings at Adelaide Writers’ Week. When I first read Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters in 2006, I had just submitted an Honours thesis in Media and English. I realised it wasn’t very Indian of me … Read more
News
End of the week round-up
We’re trotting off to the Melbourne launch now, but if you can’t make it there, you can listen in to Editor Rebecca Starford speaking with author Melina Marchetta on The Conversation Hour with Jon Faine tomorrow at 11 am. You can also download the show as a podcast after it … Read more
From the Editors
On “Women’s” Writing
International Women’s Day is celebrated this month (8 March). Recently, there have been some really interesting discussions and debates about the gender divisions between male and female writers: whether they in fact exist in this ‘post-feminist’ world and if so, how they present and what those divides … Read more
