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Copywhat?

When I was in Melbourne for EWF I stayed with my friend Pat, who makes amazing comics and thinks amazing things, and we had an unexpected formative conversation about copyright when we were eating cheap Japanese under a speaker in the corner that may or may not have been playing Kanye West. Somehow we got [ READ MORE ]

Thoughts From Inside Your Arts Bureaucracy

I just got home from a day helping to select successful applicants to the Write in your Face (WIYF) round of grants offered by Australia Council (OzCo) and administered by Express Media (EM). Those links will tell you more about this whole shebang, but I’ll copy/paste the juicy bit for all our Canadian readers: WIYF grants [ READ MORE ]

#EWF11: Typecasting speech

First off: it is impossible to typecast someone entirely accurately, because contradicting character traits and values are inherent in the human condition, as each passing second, each new experience, keeps our minds in a constant state of flux. At least they should, which is an idea I’ll get to by the end of this talk. I [ READ MORE ]

#EWF11: Intro

Last weekend I attended Emerging Writers’ Festival in Melbourne because: it’s an awesome, craft-based festiva bringing readers, writers and everyone in between together; they invited me to talk on a panel; I jump at any chance to revisit Melbourne. The difference between EWF and most other writers’ festivals in Australia is that it’s more like a readers’ [ READ MORE ]

Ronnie Scott Story Coming Up

Now that I’ve finally published the final part of my Wet Ink interview with Ronnie Scott, I’ll be republishing one of his short stories soon. It’s called ‘Together Now, Very Minor’, and is remarkable in the way eating an icecream on a bouncey castle is remarkable. [ READ MORE ]

Interview with Ronnie Scott: Part five

This idea of the ‘anthology dream’ – of publishing new writers alongside emerging writers in a coherent context – is more what I’m talking about when I ask about the Brow. Wet Ink does it too, and I understand at the Brow you avoid government funding because you want to publish smaller Australian writers alongside [ READ MORE ]

Interview with Ronnie Scott: Part four

By ‘up the ante’ do you mean ‘increase the tension’ or ‘make it seem more plausible’? Because divulging gross details for the sake of tension usually comes off as gratuitously shocking, but your details make your characters seem more real. … I probably do mean gratuitously shocking though, in that case, since the tension I’m talking [ READ MORE ]

Interview Fail

So, I flat-out failed to publish the rest of my interview with Ronnie Scott over Easter. Frankly: I was indulging in too much pot all weekend, so I pretty much hybernated in my flat and tried to finish reading Power Without Glory, which I also failed at. Power Without Glory is really long, and dense, and [ READ MORE ]

Interview with Ronnie Scott: Part three

I hope somebody recognises your talent for abstract temporal-spatial theory, because I have no idea what you’re talking about. I heard recently that during experiments with the Large Hadron Collider they had discovered that particles inside atoms will occasionally disappear, inspiring speculation about parallel universes. Is this what you’re into – it’s interesting stuff, but [ READ MORE ]

Interview with Ronnie Scott: Part two

Your narrative stories are often about boys meeting boys: young homosexuals’ first awkward attempts at flirting with each other. You are otherwise not overt about your homosexuality in your public life. Is fiction a place where you can parse your sexuality? … I am pretty freaking gay in public life. I am a red hot mess [ READ MORE ]

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