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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 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 Three

Clementine Ford’s ‘A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Being on the Dole, Again’

‘Luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparation.’ My mother was fond of this quote. She was also fond of that one about success being ninety-nine per cent perspiration and one per cent inspiration, and the one about doors and windows and imaginary men. Unfortunately, the only … Read more »

Issue Three

Issue Three extract: Clementine Ford’s ‘A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Being on the dole, again’

Forthcoming in Issue Three of Kill Your Darlings is Clementine Ford’s ‘A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Being on the dole, again’. ‘Luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparation.’ My mother was fond of this quote. She was also fond of that one about success being ninety-nine … Read more »

Podcast

Format Festival Academy of Words

Format Festival‘s Academy of Words was held on 14th March. Panels were held all day at the zine space on Peel Street, Adelaide, including Criticism and Reviewing, It’s all gone Dave Eggers: the current state of literature in Australia and The Great Zine Explosion. Clementine Ford (also … Read more »

Issue One

Full text of selected Issue One content available online now: Kalinda Ashton, Clementine Ford, Anthony Morris

Kill Your Darlings contains, inter alia, amazing fiction, commentary and reviews. In the spirit of sharing the love, we have selected as full-text offerings some of the fine words put to paper by our Issue One contributors. For your reading pleasure: Finding Out by Kalinda Ashton Love in … Read more »

Issue One

‘Love in a LOL-ed Climate: Internet Dating’ by Clementine Ford [excerpt]

This week, we will run excerpts from Issue One of Kill Your Darlings. The first excerpt is from Clementine Ford’s piece on that collision of technology, romance and shattered illusions: internet dating. Before I discovered that the lemons life throws at you are not always suitable for … Read more »