Hannah Kent

KYD co-founder and publishing director Hannah Kent’s debut novel, Burial Rites (2013), was translated into twenty-eight languages and won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year. Hannah’s second novel, The Good People, has been translated into 10 languages and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Award for Historical Fiction, the Indie Books Award for Literary Fiction, the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. It is currently being adapted for film by Aquarius Productions. @HannahFKent

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Show Your Working: Hannah Kent shares her workspace and writing practice

Show Your Working: Hannah Kent shares her workspace and writing practice

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Show Your Working: Hannah Kent shares her workspace and writing practice

Show Your Working: Hannah Kent shares her workspace and writing practice

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Editorial

Editorial

Rebecca Starford, Hannah Kent

Welcome to the 27th issue of Kill Your Darlings. As many of our readers will now be aware, 2017 will see some exciting changes at Kill Your Darlings. From 1 January, KYD will become a digital-only publisher, and the April 2017 edition (our 29th) will be the last print magazine produced. This is a huge […]

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Editorial

Editorial

Rebecca Starford

Editorial (Issue 26)

Editorial (Issue 26)

Rebecca Starford, Hannah Kent

Welcome to the 26th issue of Kill Your Darlings. The future of the arts in Australia was much on our minds as we prepared this edition. The full force of the Coalition government’s recent gutting of the Australia Council has been felt by many arts organisations around the country, with dozens losing operational funding, meaning […]

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Editorial (Issue 26)

Editorial (Issue 26)

Rebecca Starford

Editorial (Issue 25)

Editorial (Issue 25)

Hannah Kent, Rebecca Starford

Welcome to the twenty-fifth issue of Kill Your Darlings. We are delighted to be back at the editorial helm in this year after spending some time behind the scenes. We’d like to thank our former editor Brigid Mullane, whose indefatigable work and enthusiasm shaped KYD into what it is today, and our readers, for your […]

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Editorial (Issue 25)

Editorial (Issue 25)

Hannah Kent

Keep Calm and Carry On: An Unexpected Path to Publication

Keep Calm and Carry On: An Unexpected Path to Publication

Hannah Kent

Just over two years ago, I was – to put it plainly – shitting myself. It was January 2011, and the novel I needed to write, the historical novel that was to be the creative component of my PhD in Creative Writing at Flinders University, could no longer be avoided. While, in the first few […]

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Keep Calm and Carry On: An Unexpected Path to Publication

Keep Calm and Carry On: An Unexpected Path to Publication

Hannah Kent

Victim and the Agent of the Fantastical: The Allure of Florence + The Machine

Victim and the Agent of the Fantastical: The Allure of Florence + The Machine

Hannah Kent

In July 2010, I was one of the 30,000 people gathered to see British band Florence + The Machine play at Splendour in the Grass, an annual music festival now located in the hinterlands of southern Queensland. Through a combination of faux innocence (‘I have to find my friend’) and sheer elbow power, I forced […]

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Victim and the Agent of the Fantastical: The Allure of Florence + The Machine

Victim and the Agent of the Fantastical: The Allure of Florence + The Machine

Hannah Kent

‘To The Well-Organised Mind, Death is but the Next Great Adventure’: Vale, Harry Potter

‘To The Well-Organised Mind, Death is but the Next Great Adventure’: Vale, Harry Potter

Hannah Kent

Vale, Harry Potter

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‘To The Well-Organised Mind, Death is but the Next Great Adventure’: Vale, Harry Potter

‘To The Well-Organised Mind, Death is but the Next Great Adventure’: Vale, Harry Potter

Hannah Kent

Conversation with Philip Pullman

Conversation with Philip Pullman

Hannah Kent

Philip Pullman is a writer of exceptional imaginative ability. An author of over twenty books, he dwells in that rare domain of being loved and revered by both children and adults. Best known for his trilogy, His Dark Materials – in which humans have visible, external souls, armoured polar bears carry children through the snow, […]

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Conversation with Philip Pullman

Conversation with Philip Pullman

Hannah Kent