Writer’s Edit: Anthology Submissions

Calling all new and emerging writers who are looking to be published and part of something pretty special. Literary magazine Writer’s Edit are currently taking submissions for their first anthology to be released later this year. Writer’s Edit is an online lit mag of writing advice, industry news, and new writing. Based in Sydney, but … Continue reading →

Native Son

I’m almost 400 pages into Richard Wright’s novel Native Son when I read this passage that strikes me as truly beautiful: If he reached out with his hands, and if his hands were electric wires, and if his heart were a battery giving life and fire to those hands, and if he reached out with … Continue reading →

how I became a killer

I just sat down at my laptop and realised I’d started my novel in the wrong place. I was going to have to ‘kill my darlings’. Luckily I haven’t written much so it wasn’t too painful to cut those first few pages. Every writer has to kill their darlings at some point, but this is the first time I’ve … Continue reading →

to plan or not to plan

I’ve got a story idea up my sleeve that I want to spend the next month nutting out and preparing to write. The thing is, I’ve never been a planner. Even when I was little, typing 20 page stories after school, I never planned. But I look into my crystal ball and see that my … Continue reading →