Dark Places and Safe Spaces: S.A. Jones’ Isabelle of the Moon and Stars

Light and Shade: Myfanwy Jones’ Leap

MUBAs and Shakers: The 2013 Most Underrated Book Award

Selling out

A novel approach: creative writing as higher learning?

KYD No.25 teaser: ‘The Age of Entitlement’

The Lure of the Literary Pilgrimage

The write skills

What we didn’t know and couldn’t read: Nicole Moore’s The Censor’s Library

History in the service of fiction: Anna Funder’s All That I Am

Best of 2013 (Part Two): Television, Film and Writing

What are we watching here?: Pleasure and pain in Lovelace

The Revolutionary Jesus: Reza Aslan’s Zealot

It’s love and it’s Australian and it’s here: an interview with Donna Ward

Upon my honour

The E.P. Thompson of historical fiction: Amanda Curtin’s Elemental

Dangerous Femaleness: A review of S.A. Jones’ The Fortress

The terrible power of ‘echidna books’: Julienne Van Loon’s Harmless

The epic in the everyday: Iris Lavell’s Elsewhere in Success

Cause for celebration

Poster girl for persistence: Annabel Smith’s Whisky, Charlie, Foxtrot

The modern epistolary novel: Annabel Smith’s The Ark

Fiction: Fish-Hair Woman

A peek inside Kill Your Darlings No. 16

‘No Softness in this World’: Sarah Drummond’s The Sound

The Struggle for Equilibrium: Susan Johnson’s The Landing

A great book

The stories that numbers tell: Jane Gleeson-White’s Double Entry

‘Fool the Axis, Use Prophylaxis’: World War II’s anti-venereal disease posters

‘Weather is never just weather’: Sophie Cunningham’s Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy

A writing guide for the time poor

Kill Your Darlings Issue 25 Released!

Smut Detective: Pornography, the Historian and the Law

A Peanut-Cruncher’s Defence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

The Birthing

Castle Dreaming: Love in Paronella Park

Weighty Issues: On Fat, Silence and Self-Knowledge

20 Under 40

Kill Your Darlings No.25 trailer