Tag Archives: Emily Maguire
Issue Four
Full text frenzy: Issue Four
We’re generous folk here at Kill Your Darlings, so to celebrate Issue Four (available at our stockists and website now!), we’re sharing three pieces from the new issue with you. First is Emily Maguire’s moving and shocking ‘The Invisible Women: Carers in Australian Families‘, which sheds light … Read more
Issue Four
Issue Four is here!
Just when you were wondering whether 2011 was going to live up to the hype, Kill Your Darlings Issue Four is launched! Available at our stockists and direct from our website, it’s packed full of deeply inquisitive commentary, including Emily Maguire on carers in Australia; beautiful new … Read more
Issue Four
Extract – Emily Maguire, ‘The Invisible Women: Carers in Australian Families’
In Issue Four of Kill Your Darlings (released on January 14), Emily Maguire records three women’s experiences caring for ill and disabled family members. Read an exclusive extract from the essay here. Care, the nursing historian Marie-Françoise Collière wrote, ‘is at the very root of women’s history, … Read more
From the Editors
Surprising dilemmas: on being pigeonholed as a writer
It’s interesting, after days of listening to various writers talk, to watch certain themes emerge – particularly the ones you’d least expect. One surprising thread of conversation across the Melbourne and Brisbane Writers’ Festivals was the mixed blessing of finding a niche as a writer. Kathy Charles, … Read more
Books
In defence of the slut: Emily Maguire’s Your Skirt’s Too Short [review]
Hysteria about adolescent female sexuality is at fever pitch at the moment. You can’t open a newspaper without having some self-proclaimed figurehead like Michael Carr-Gregg shrilling about teenagers having orgies, tween stars pole dancing on MTV and the effect singing along to that Britney song about threesomes … Read more
