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Monthly Archives: July 2010

Issue Two

Love from the Wheeler Centre

by , July 7, 2010 • 2 Comments

It’s a week of love and lust at the Wheeler Centre this week. To celebrate – in addition to the fine roster of events they’re offering – they selected an excerpt from Kill Your Darlings Issue Two. Back in 1993, Ruth Starke won the national Woman’s Day/Mills … Read more »

From the Editors

Why the internet turned me on (to creative writing)

by , July 6, 2010 • 18 Comments

In the current Overland, Cate Kennedy has published a fascinating essay on the distractions of the internet – and the various ways it impedes creative writing. It encourages a lack of inhibition – and worse, a lack of reflection and analysis. It privileges currency over depth. The … Read more »

Podcast

‘If it’s all laughs, you’re not really telling the story’: Benjamin Law

by , July 1, 2010 • Leave a comment

Podcast roadmap: A bit of time travel to Brisbane, 1989; having a family with a wrong sense of humour; five editors inside (or outside) your head; mothers being mortifying but quotable; Cantonese lessons on where to wash; ‘There’s nothing wrong with being gay – it just means … Read more »