Having won the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Drag down to unlock or place an emergency call, in a way Melinda Smith needs no introduction. However, in the interests …
BEYOND THE FICTIONAL FRAME: an interview with Anthony Uhlmann
Interviewer: Anthony Macris In his role as Professor of literature and creative writing at Western Sydney University, Anthony Uhlmann has spent much of his career writing about the connection between literature …
WILDLY HYBRID: an interview with Meera Atkinson
Meera Atkinson writes across genres — creative nonfiction, memoir, fiction, hybrid, poetry, essays, scholarly, songs — and over the last ten years her work has been particularly focussed on the subject of …
MALE IDENTITY AND THE DANGER OF PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS: an interview with Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Interview by Samuel Elliot (edited by Angelina Tsinganos) Michael Mohammed Ahmad is a Western-Sydney-based, Arab-Australian writer, teacher and editor. He is also co-founder of the autonomous literary organisation SweatShop, which prides …
Unearthing Hidden Histories: an interview with Claire G Coleman
Born in Western Australia, Indigenous author Claire G Coleman was raised in a Forestry’s settlement outside of Perth and identifies with the South Coast Noongar people, as well as having …
YEARNING FOR JUSTICE: an interview with Sara Dowse
Sara Dowse is a prize-winning Australian novelist and reviewer. Born in Chicago, Dowse grew up in Hollywood, the daughter of an actor mother and celebrity lawyer father. After experiencing anti-Semitism, …
THE HEART OF AUSTRALIAN DARKNESS: An Interview with Mark Brandi
Verity La is all about new and exciting voices in Australian literature, so allow us to introduce you to Mark Brandi. Mark has been published, broadcast and shortlisted in journals …
UNTWISTING YOUR OWN TONGUE: an interview with Roanna Gonsalves
Roanna Gonsalves is the author of The Permanent Resident (UWAP, 2016) a collection of short fiction exploring how the newly arrived find their place in a new land. Her series …
THE METAPHORICAL RESONANCES OF LANDSCAPE: an interview with Lucy Treloar
Lucy Treloar was born in Malaysia and educated in Melbourne, England and Sweden. A graduate of the University of Melbourne and RMIT, Lucy is a writer and editor who has …
MODERNITY & INEXPERIENCE: an interview with Anthony Macris
There are trends in publishing, that is undeniable, but some writers refuse to do anything other than go their own way. Enter Anthony Macris. Macris is an Australian writer and …