On Writing
Authors
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Literary & Narrative Journalism, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Sydney
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Recently, I was in hasty need of multiple sources on a breaking news story, so I went to a well-known news aggregation website. But before I had even typed in my search terms, it was apparent that my options…
Kerrie Davies’ A Wife’s Heart places her own story alongside that of Henry Lawson’s wife.
Change in the White House! … Change in the Congress, compliant and corrupt … Change won’t come from the top … Change will come from a mobilised grass roots. Lines from a Donald Trump speech? No. The author…
Australia’s current debate on marriage equality reminds us that sex and love are volatile subjects in every culture. So imagine writing about them in a country like India, where every issue is enmeshed…
There’s an old saying in journalism: “All news is local”. It means that news, wherever it comes from, needs to engage the interest of its local audience if it is to succeed. But read today’s paper, or…
If it’s an election, you can bet that our cash-strapped publishing industry is preparing to unleash another volley of those hardy perennials known as the election campaign diaries. Penned by seasoned political…
This is a story about stories. Who writes them. Who owns them and what happens when the two things get muddled. It’s a story about true stories, life stories, stories written by amateurs and professionals…