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Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. This week’s take on the debate regarding creative writing programs – the positive and the not so positive. Nine popular European tourist attractions that you might want to miss The legacy … Read more
News
New opportunities at Kill Your Darlings: Online Intern and Online Marketing Intern
Kill Your Darlings is seeking an Online Intern and an Online Marketing Intern to work one day per week (or equivalent). This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding creative company, and to have extensive and practical experience in the publishing industry. Each position is voluntary … Read more
News
Kill Your Darlings available online!
We’re immensely excited to announce that Kill Your Darlings is now available in digital formats. Our new issue, Kill Your Darlings No. 8, is available here as an e-book from Booki.sh (just $9.99) and Kobo (a steal at $7.99). Of course, it’s also available in a beautiful … Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. The art of book cover fails How to write like a funny woman (and other tips) How internet memes and hollywood remakes are alike Food blurbs! Do our viewing tastes reflect … Read more
News
Counting down the days to Kill Your Darlings online…
You may have heard around the traps that Kill Your Darlings will soon be available online and as an e-book. Well, it’s true! We are extremely excited about this progression, and we will be launching these new formats very soon. Don’t worry – you’ll still be able … Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. How many movies are there, really? Beautiful ink portraits on vintage envelopes. Kerouac wanted Marlon Brando to bring On the Road to life. The Millions’ most anticipated books of 2012. ‘Call … Read more
Issue Eight
Issue Eight launches today!
We are excited to announce that Issue Eight is launched today! You can purchase it here or subscribe to the journal here. Five of the issue’s pieces are now available online for free: click through to read them. The edition kicks off with Maria Tumarkin’s lead essay, … Read more
Issue Eight
Issue Eight launches next week!
Thank you for checking in at Killings for teaser week! Issue Eight of Kill Your Darlings launches on Monday, January 9. You can pre-order the issue here, or contact our stockists for availability. And psst … visit our website on Monday for free full-text content from the … Read more
Issue Eight
Issue Eight teaser: Anthony Morris’s ‘Men Without Hats – Justified and Breaking Bad’
For our final Issue Eight teaser, Anthony Morris ponders what a character’s headwear says about them. If a teaser just isn’t enough, you can find the full text of Morris’ essay and more on our website in the coming weeks. For instant gratification, why not pre-order a … Read more
Issue Eight
Issue Eight teaser: Clementine Ford’s ‘It’s a Sex Thing, Right? – When Fantasy Becomes Reality’
In our second Issue Eight sampler, Clementine Ford reminisces about pesto pasta, phone sex and other attempts at adulthood. Our final instalment of Issue Eight teasers is on its way – watch this space! I’d moved out of home at the start of my second year at … Read more
Issue Eight
Issue Eight teaser: Maria Tumarkin’s ‘Sublime and Profane – Our Contemporary Obsession With Food’
In our first sneak peek at Issue Eight, we’re delighted to serve up a delicious piece by Maria Tumarkin, discussing why Australians are becoming increasingly obsessed with food, even at the expense of other forms of culture. There will be more teasers to come over the following … Read more
Issue Eight, News
Happy holidays, and Issue Eight teaser week
Well, that was a lot of turkey. Here at KYD headquarters, we’re hoping all our readers and friends are having a lovely holiday season. Killings will be taking a short break this week, but we’ll be back right after New Year’s with some sneak peeks at Issue … Read more
From the Editors
Give a KYD gift subscription this Christmas for just $50 – and keep a present for yourself!
Give the perfect gift to your friends and family: a subscription to Kill Your Darlings. Not only will you be giving a yearly dose of KYD goodness (with a saving of 30% off RRP and free postage) but from now until Christmas Eve you can also keep … Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us from our writing. Joan Didion’s new memoir Blue Nights will be out in November, this is a lovely essay and interview with her in New York magazine. An amusing list (not to mention … Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us from our writing. This is a meme we are very into. How do you make feminist theory more appealing? You put Ryan Gosling on it. (This one’s our favourite. And this … Read more
Issue Seven
Full text frenzy: Issue Seven
To celebrate the release of Issue Seven (available at our stockists and website now!), we’re sharing three pieces from the new issue with you. First is Ben Eltham’s ‘Clouds of Rhetoric: Climate Change and the State of Australian Journalism’ which examines the carbon-tax debate, News Limited and … Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us from our writing. Christos Tsiolkas’s full letter to the ABC on its axing of The Book Show. Interesting piece on how Google Translate works – and the commonality of expression no … Read more
Issue Seven
Issue Seven teasers next week
We’re excited to unveil Issue Seven of Kill Your Darlings next week. Leading up to its release on Monday 3 October, we’ll have three sneaky extracts for you here at Killings! Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and Distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us from our writing. One of the best pieces we’ve ever read on freelancing – Richard Morgan on seven years as a freelance writer. Some Friday morning inspiration – a classic This … Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and Distractions
In the first of our fortnightly series, Killings brings you a selection of offerings that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us from our writing. Read more
From the Editors, News
Kill Your Darlings Special Single Issue Purchase Offer
Need to catch-up on past issues of Kill Your Darlings? We have a special offer for KYD fans: Issues Two, Three and Four are now available for purchase at a very special price. Normally $18, until 31 August only $10 each! (and we’ll cover the postage too) … Read more
Interviews
Excerpt: Kill Your Darlings in conversation with Ron Rash
For Issue Six, Kill Your Darlings was delighted to speak with North American writer Ron Rash. A poet, novelist and short story writer, Ron Rash has won many awards for his work, including the 2010 Frank O’Connor prize for his short story collection, Burning Bright. We spoke with Ron … Read more
Comment
But Is It Comedy? Chris Lilley’s Angry Boys
The first step in reviewing something is to successfully identify what it is. Start complaining that Zoolander isn’t taking seriously the plight of child labourers in the fashion industry and people probably aren’t going to bother with whatever else you have to say. So it’s tempting to … Read more
Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading: Lisa Dempster, director of the Emerging Writers’ Festival
The Emerging Writers’ Festival kicks off today (see Kill Your Darlings appearances here). We asked EWF director Lisa Dempster to give us her recommended reading list. The role of a literary festival director is ironic in many ways: the closer the festival gets, the more time one … Read more
Events
Melbourne: Kill Your Darlings Trivia Night tomorrow!
We hope you’ve been speed-reading all the classics and madly perusing recent bestsellers, because the Kill Your Darlings Trivia Night (and launch of Issue Five) is on tomorrow night! When: 6 for 6:30pm, Thursday 7 April Where: The Pumphouse Hotel, 128 Nicholson St, Fitzroy How much: $15 … Read more
News
Announcing an exciting initiative for illustrators
We have some great news for emerging illustrators and cartoonists. Kill Your Darlings is looking for three individual artists to illustrate the cover of our next three issues (July, October and January 2012). We seek illustrators who will continue the Kill Your Darlings aesthetic while progressing and … Read more
Issue Five
Issue Five now available for pre-order!
We’re pleased to announce that Issue Five is now available for pre-order! Officially launched on April 4, the Kill Your Darlings April issue opens with Matthia Dempsey’s ‘Meaning-of-Life Type Stuff: The Survival of Australian Bookshops’, in which she reflects on book-buying habits and how they shape the … Read more
News
Giveaway: Need to catch up on single issues of Kill Your Darlings?
Kill Your Darlings has a special offer for the first 20 people who buy a single issue (Issue Two, Three or Four) from now until 3pm Tuesday March 1. It’s dead easy: just click here, click the Buy Now button beneath the issue you want – don’t worry, … Read more
On Writing
On Writing: Louise Swinn
For our ‘On Writing’ series, we asked Louise Swinn to reflect on writing. Her short story ‘A Clean Kind of Dirt’ appears in Issue 4 of Kill Your Darlings. Who cares why I write? I’m the most average person in the world. I have a liberal arts … Read more
Art
“I’m not a guide, we don’t have guides”: MONANISM, Opening exhibition of MONA, Tasmania
Approaching the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Berriedale, Tasmania via the highway is a little like the establishing shot in action movies of the villain’s island lair: implanted into a headland, a great clot of concrete gridding and glowing, ochre rust. The museum is … Read more
