Writers like Frank Moorhouse and Ben Eltham have proposed new long-term fellowships to support writing. But a better way may be more smaller grants, offering opportunities for travel.
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Unlike earlier lesbian and gay movements whose politics depended on visible identities, queer theory grew out of a critique of this – and perhaps that’s where Djuna Barnes sits.
Writers have tried pretty much anything to make ends meet: advertising, journalism, butterfly collecting, working as a janitor or a postal clerk.
Seven tips to make you shine.
Going as far back as the Bible, and as widely known as the phrase ‘Open, Sesame,’ passwords are a textual link to our past. But they may not be around much longer.
U.S. journalism has long championed an allegiance to cold objectivity. But one researcher analyzed Pulitzer Prize-winning stories from the past 20 years and found that they’re suffused with emotion.
From Tolstoy to Mark Twain, the most famous writers owe many words of thanks to their long-suffering wives.
Brisbane’s Rock and Roll Writers Festival rubbed musicians and writers up against each other in just the right way.
James Patterson – one of the world’s bestselling authors – may not principally be a writer.
The conditions for originality in a piece of writing.
He probably would have been amused by – and maybe even befriended – Trump the entertainer. Trump the president? Not so much.
This year is the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death and her celebrity continues to grow. But relegating Austen’s work to plots about ‘whether the heroine gets her man’ belittles her achievement.
With its dramatic landscape, relative isolation and vibrant counter culture, Western Australia has a thriving writing scene. But government funding cuts are biting.
Why you should model your writing on ‘lean’ manufacturing.
A prescriptive English curriculum is in danger of making writing boring for primary school children.
Your personal statement is one of the most crucial elements of your UCAS application. Here’s the best way to go about writing it.
Were your teachers right about when to use commas, and about not starting sentences with ‘and’?
Shirley Hazzard, who passed away this week, was one of the great prose stylists of the last 50 years. A deeply intellectual autodidact, she championed the public duty of writers and the pleasure of reading.
The Australian writer Georgia Blain, who died last week, wrote extraordinary portraits of family relationships, in luminous prose, with devastating insight. And when she became ill, she wrote about her cancer.
The latest round of NAPLAN results show Australia’s school systems are not good at reducing the influence of a student’s background on their academic achievement.
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