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Interview with Ronnie Scott: Part one

Ronnie Scott: is 23; moved to Melbourne from Brisbane in 2004, leaving behind a community-radio breakfast program and bringing with him the first slim issues of The Lifted Brow: Bi-annual attack journal, which he still publishes and is now sometimes massive; is doing a PhD in creative writing; has been Associate Director of National Young [ READ MORE ]

Interview with Ronnie Scott: Intro

Over Easter I’m going to publish my interview with Ronnie Scott, which I had the fortune to conduct for Wet Ink, followed by one of Ronnie’s short stories, ‘Together Now, Very Minor’, a wonderful piece about the relationships we form on hallucinogens, which then dissipate into reality. Writing about tripping is like writing about dancing or [ READ MORE ]

Melodica Dissidence

I find it interesting how we use our Twitter bios to communicate our identities to one another. We need labels in order to understand who we are, and the 160-character limit means we tend to cram these labels in, dropping ‘and’ from our lists to leave more space or, if you’re an internet marketer and [ READ MORE ]

If:book Essay: You’re the Voice

If:book Australia is a think-and-do tank dedicated to promoting ‘new forms of digital literature’ and exploring ‘ways to boost connections between writers and audiences’, which is more exciting than I can fully express. They are associated with the Institute for the Future of the Book in New York, and if:book London, and are based at Queensland Writers’ [ READ MORE ]

Sam Cooney on David Foster Wallace

Humiliating, yes, but, ultimately, rewarding, yeah? To be reduced in this way brings us back to our true, elusive, humility, which we would all do well to revisit as occasionally as our egos can stand it. Sam Cooney on David Foster Wallace on travelling in foreign countries. [ READ MORE ]

Friday’s Revolution

Huh, the thesis of my latent manifesto just coalesced a little more (#holidays), leaving me with fifty-odd years to complete it before it coagulates (#life). [ READ MORE ]

“ACADEMY OF WORDS” By Robert Dunstan

Academy Of Words is a publishing industry event to be held on Sun Feb 27 as part of the Format Festival, itself an award winning arts festival. It’s been put together with a focus on the constantly changing face of publishing and what young people, in particular, can do about it. … The event will consist [ READ MORE ]

INTRO: Academy Notes

I don’t know where to start. Attempting a summary of any festival would require access to the thoughts of all involved, because any festival is the people who make it up. So the only thing I was able to say about it before I left Adelaide for Robe to take some time out was, on Twitter, [ READ MORE ]

Miscellaneous Miscellany #001

Here is the first installment of SIB’s ‘Miscellaneous Miscellany’, a link-blogging series I’m going to experiment with for a while after deciding, again, to have a go at moving away from Facebook. Herein you’ll find links to things I’ve found on the internet, kind of like StumbleUpon but less addictive, more specific to SIB’s general [ READ MORE ]

Paranoid About Facebook

I'm spurning Facebook as much as I can now, and this post explains why, as well as how else I'll share the information I so love, in case you're interested in following that trail, in the blessedly ad hoc fashion we peruse the internet[ READ MORE ]

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