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23/09/2016

Gorgeous design, I think even my favourite detective would approve the meticulous lines!

It’s been 100 years since Agatha Christie wrote her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (published in 1920), giving life to Hercule ...

03/08/2016

Anyone around my age or older would remember how much this was an important if, not well understood part of our lives. To know this play was constructed nearly entirely by entirely by letters to and from Lindy gave an amazingly intimate insight into the way ordinary Australians felt and reacted to the death of Azaria Chamberlain. Watch the entire clip to hear Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton's opinion of 'letters to Lindy'!

29/06/2016

So very, very true, and similar principles apply to academic work:
via http://www.ktediting.com/editing-just-using-spellcheck-right/

Random person: Oh you’re an editor? That means you correct mistakes, right? Can’t a spell-checker do that? I read a book and spotted a typo once; maybe I should be an editor! *chortle, guffaw, splutter* Me: *pleasant smile while my soul is dying* Sure, when I edit something, I correct mistakes. How...

20/06/2016

Nice to see a bit of Simon Armitage's translation in this article. Also, tbh, I'm not sure I ever realised this poem was about the loss of a child...

There is something about the very remoteness of the medieval poem “Pearl,” now out in a new translation, that magnifies its emotional power.

20/06/2016

Ummm...

31/05/2016

Pretty excited to announce that the first and second prize winners of the TWJ comp are now up on the blog at www.thewritingjunction.com

The problem has been formulated correctly because it presents 'drugs' as a pregnant whole, free of secondary distinctions

26/04/2016

Great series showing how different writers 'organise' their day : ) Some of these may ring true for you!

‘I am at the stage where everything is connected to this book, I keep bumping into it. I love this feeling’

05/04/2016

Interesting broad but insightful article ... but I would say personally that most of my friends/colleagues/peers who create work based on the anthropocene have already taken the anthropos (that's us) out of the picture, trying to return agency to the non-human but natural. Grace Hellyer, Ranciere gets a shout out even!

And is it already over? 'Perhaps the Anthropocene has already become an anthropomeme: punned and pimped into stuplimity, its presence in popular discourse often just a virtue signal that merely mandates the user to proceed with the work of consumption.'

We are living in the Anthropocene age, in which human influence on the planet is so profound – and terrifying – it will leave its legacy for millennia. Politicians and scientists have had their say, but how are writers and artists responding to this crisis?

28/03/2016

This Thursday, 31st. Yours truly doing a short opening slot. Free event, some excellent Australian and US poetry, wine before and Q&A after 🎤

Chris Nealon, distinguished visitor from John Hopkins University will unite with Sydney-poet Pam Brown and SAM alumni Josh Mei-Ling Dubrau and Lewis-Allan Trathen to present an evening of readings.

22/02/2016

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The must-have reference for everyone who works with words

21/02/2016

For everyone striving to submit their HDR work by 31st March, this is an excellent referencing site from Purdue: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/