LES ZIGOMANIS Tell me about your collection. RYAN O’NEILL The Weight of a Human Heart is a collection of stories set in different parts of the world and told in …
THE REACH AND THE ENGAGEMENT: an interview with Rob Spillman
EMILY KIDDELL I heard a rumour that the good people of Tin House might be keen to visit Australia with a version of the increasingly popular Tin House Summer Writers …
What it’s like to want to write when all they want is for you to sing (JL Shenstone)
There came a time in my life when I had to face the fact that I was never going to relate to most of the population. They go to work, …
FROM DEEPEST DEATH TO FULLEST LIFE: an interview with Patrick West
LAURIE STEED You are noted as saying it’s essential a short story ‘spend time in the foreign territories of the writer before it is midwifed onto the page’. How would …
THE PAINFUL AND THE THREATENING: an interview with Maria Takolander
WILL HEYWARD I recently read your story A Roānkin Philosophy of Poetry (winner of the ABR Short Story Prize), which takes the form of a monologue. The story is ironic, …
ON THE HIGH ROAD: an interview with Chris Womersley
EMILY KIDDELL George Dunford wrote about Second Novel Syndrome in an essay called ‘Repeat Offenders’ (Meanjin) and considered a number of writers who’d fallen at that hurdle. He also wrote …
Instinct (Angela Meyer)
My burrow smells like animal shit and typist underarms. There is also the earth. Sigmund greets me with a hiss and I take him from the glass and let him …
THE BUMPY RIDE OF EXPOSING SHIT-HEADS: an interview with Richard Neville
There are stories that have threaded themselves in and around my bones. The dismissal of Gough Whitlam is one, everything about Picnic at Hanging Rock is another, and the extinction …
SNAPSHOTS OF TRUTH: an interview with Paddy O'Reilly
ALEC PATRIC There’s a way a writer places themselves in a box when they create a story. The more we write the more that box defines itself as the limits …
Snapshots of Truth – Paddy O’Reilly
Alec Patric: There’s a way a writer places themselves in a box when they create a story. The more we write the more that box defines itself as the limits …