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Crowd-sourced Programming

… In the DIY spirit of Format and the one-day literary festival I’m programming for them, I’m posting prospective blurb titles for the events I’m thinking of running on the day, and I want you to write the blurb you think I should run with it. Hopefully some panel ideas will come out of it, and [ READ MORE ]

The Author–Editor Relationship

A good book editor has to be capable of mentoring a person: after hacking at the fundamental structure of an author’s manuscript, an editor needs to be there to field questions, lend support and generally reassure the author their early work has not been one big, protracted period of self delusion and folly. A good editor [ READ MORE ]

Garth, I Mean, Ben! Ben Brooks!

For ages I had this article open in my browser at work because I am loosely interested in keeping in touch with developments in experimental fiction: some days I just want to read a good book, of the ‘lyrical realist’ variety mentioned in the article – the kind of novel we inherited from the nineteenth [ READ MORE ]

Fulture-cunding, or, I Don’t Play the Oboe

I saw the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra play last night – my girlfriend got free tickets and looooooves classical music. I was going to post something silly on Facebook about it before I went: something about how I hoped my fellow grundy fulture-cunding anti-elite didn’t catch me sleeping with the enemy, because I understand that some [ READ MORE ]

The Academy

When I came back to Adelaide from Melbourne thinking I could take some time off and bury my head in some books at work, I didn’t expect that a bunch of Adelaide crew would have set up a goddamn arts festival and plonked their headquarters down in a little side street off Hindley, that mungtarded [ READ MORE ]

Ironic Questioning

The use of ironic questioning in clarifying the meaning of an ambiguous phrase or sentence is often counter productive, as the author will usually read your question literally and begin to doubt your intelligence, undermining the authority on which the uptake of your suggestion depends. [ READ MORE ]

How to Grow a Mullet in 2010

Someone recently asked me to write about my mullet for an independent Adelaide newspaper, and the below ‘column’ is the result. It was accompanied by the terrible Photo Booth job that I’ve pasted in: not sure what’s worse, the ‘haircut’ or the ‘photo’ of the ‘haircut’. Or the ‘column’. Actually I quite like the column [ READ MORE ]

REVIEW ‘Clinching’ by Emmett Stinson

Yesterday afternoon, waiting for an author who was waiting on the other side of the cafe, I had a chance to read ‘Clinching’, a story by Emmett Stinson in the first issue of Kill Your Darlings.1 Emmett, at 30-odd, is on the cusp of SIB’s definition of ‘young writer’, but I’ve been encountering his work since [ READ MORE ]

Demystifying Rights

I had to do some quick research into ‘second and subsequent serial rights’ recently, and realised it might be worthwhile demystifying some of what I learnt – it’s such a minefield of ambiguity out there, it must be terrifying if you’ve finally got a book deal and then have to learn legalese when you get [ READ MORE ]

Culture by Committee

I finally got around to reading this, Benjamin Eltham’s Overland article about abolishing Australia Council (OzCo), Australia’s arts funding and advisory body. I’ve been watching Eltham and Marcus Westbury’s cultural policy debate as closely as I ever watch any debate, and it’s especially exciting to see an article in Overland that backs up its critique with [ READ MORE ]

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