ALEC PATRIC The road ahead is harder and longer than any of us can know. That’s what they say on the first day of a creative writing course, and …
DEATH HAG: an interview with Kathy Charles
ALEC PATRIC I was walking through a provincial French town to see a famous cathedral. Within the glass pastry cabinets were dazed bees, flitting around from one cake to another, …
THE WELL-EXERCISED IMAGINATION: an interview with Andrea Goldsmith
The official blurb says this: ‘Andrea Goldsmith originally trained as a speech pathologist and was a pioneer in the development of communication aids for people unable to speak. Her first …
NEGOTIATING DEATH: an interview with Ivy Alvarez
ALEC PATRIC We often negotiate with death when we write. There’s a last will and testament to everything we put down to paper. The literary act itself, hands a …
THE TRANSITIONS OF JOSEPHINE ROWE: an interview
ALEC PATRIC Every writer has a muse, whether we put much thought into it or not. When we start out and are struggling to find our creative sources, we run …
THE POSSIBILITIES OF WAYNE MACAULEY: an interview by Alec Patric
ALEC PATRIC I picked up your new collection, Other Stories, published recently by Black Pepper. In a word, superb. ‘Reply to a Letter’ might just be the great Australian novel …
BROW BY BROW: an interview with Ronnie Scott
KIRK MARSHALL Over the years, The Lifted Brow has come to self-ascribe its format as that of a ‘bi-annual attack journal’. What’s the plan of attack? If there’s a manifesto …
SPUNC: an interview with Zoe Dattner
ALEC PATRIC A small press publisher called Russian Thought released a story called ‘The Lady with a Little Dog’ in their December issue, in 1899. A little earlier, The Russian …
THE BOUYANCY OF COURAGE: an interview with Francesca Rendle-Short
Some people are too good to be true, and Francesca Rendle-Short is one of those people, but she is true, as in real, and here she is, in conversation with …
DISTURBING DIALOGUES: an interview with Kuzhali Manickavel
ALEC PATRIC You have warned me not to ask you what life in India is like. I wouldn’t even have thought to ask you that, but I must confess, you’ve …