Category Archives: Events
Events
Magazine at Melbourne Writers Festival
Kill Your Darlings is delighted to be part of Magazine at the Melbourne Writers Festival. This new, free event will see Australian literary journals and magazines, including Meanjin, Overland, The Big Issue and Ampersand, taking residence in the Magazine shipping container on the banks of the Yarra … Read more
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Kill Your Darlings at the Wheeler Centre Open Day
If you thought that Open Days were only for awkwardly introducing your parents to your Grade Four teacher or figuring out where you’d like to embark upon your university bar-hopping-slash-education, you were wrong. Melbourne’s hub of literary activity, The Wheeler Centre, is having an Open Day on … Read more
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The Female Eunuch: 40 Years On (Melbourne)
Kill Your Darlings presents Monica Dux, Leslie Cannold and Karen Pickering in conversation about the impact of Germaine Greer’s classic feminist text, The Female Eunuch, at the time of publication and now, 40 years on. (And yes, we’ll also talk about that Nowra article.) This promises to … Read more
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Roll up, roll up! Issue Two launches announced
Please join Kill Your Darlings in celebrating the launch of Issue Two! We’ll be having a short launch, followed by an evening of bingo. (Yes, that’s right. BINGO.) It’ll be a night of all sorts of fun, plus we’ll be giving away loads of prizes, including books, … Read more
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Kill Your Darlings team appearances
A little alert about the doings of the Kill Your Darlings team: On Saturday 15 May, KYD Editor Rebecca Starford will be reading at A Bridge for Short Attention Spans – a showcase of thirty writers and editors (Brunswick Street Gallery, 7pm – 10pm). Towards the end … Read more
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Kill Your Darlings Literary Trivia Night (Melbourne)
They came to play, and they played hard. Last week’s Kill Your Darlings literary trivia night was a great success, with twelve tables battling it out for the KYD Trivia Champion title. Props to the Text Publishing team, who aced questions about true lies, sex and death … Read more
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Kill Your Darlings Trivia Night (Melbourne)
We suspect that you will be very, very excited about this news: the Kill Your Darlings Trivia Night is on again. Let’s face it. In the real world, knowing who won last year’s Miles Franklin or why Bob Ellis was sued by Tony Abbott won’t win you … Read more
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‘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
Events, Issue One, Press
Gideon Haigh’s ‘Feeding the Hand that Bites: The Demise of Australian Literary Reviewing’ [excerpt]
Everybody wants to go to heaven, as they say, but nobody wants to die. So it is in the world of book reviewing. Everyone is in favour of frank and fearless criticism, up to the point where a work of theirs might come off the worse for … Read more
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Kill Your Darlings Radelaide Literary Trivia Night
After the success of our first public event in Melbourne in September, Kill Your Darlings decided to spread the literary love across the nation and ran another trivia night in Adelaide on Wednesday the 28th of October. Held at the delightful ‘Wheaty‘, nine tables battled it out through … Read more
