What Television Teaches Us About Literary Fiction
July 11, 2016
Publishers should look to television to engage with audiences, writes Paul Mitchell.
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Publishers should look to television to engage with audiences, writes Paul Mitchell.
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Paul Mitchell on the pressure creative writing academics face to maintain their vocations.
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Paul Mitchell spends a night in the emergency waiting room, waiting.
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1. It’s not a life. It’s a profession, a hobby, an activity or an obsession. Life goes on regardless of it. In fact, life doesn’t care whether I write or not. Thank you life. 2. If I desperately have to…
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Paul Mitchell on open readers at poetry evenings – and the bad first impressions that can be made.
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Paul Mitchell examines the editorial biases at work in the Australian poetry community.
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When I was a writing student at RMIT (twice), I was told that if I ever worked as a freelance journalist (an ill-advised career path), the best way to get published was to send a pitch to an editor. Send…
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I once thought there was only one kind of rejection slip/email: a bad one. Dear Fool, we’ve had a record number of submissions by so many amazingly talented writers and we are so sorry that we couldn’t include yours on…
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It should be obvious that a quote about writing that has its origin in a comedy movie starring Billy Crystal wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.
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Paul Mitchell on finding the space to write.
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Paul Mitchell considers the question of vocation when it comes to writing and its worth. A true story: one of Australia’s leading writers is watching a documentary. A surgeon performs a live-saving operation on a child. The leading Australian writer…
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Rob McGere, alias Paul Mitchell, ponders poetry from the construction site ahead of his Melbourne Fringe performance, Being a Wheel Family. This is one of them Bogs, isn’t it? Yeah? Nah? A Blog you call it? Oh yeah? Short for…
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Paul Mitchell reflects on his experience running Australian Poetry-sponsored workshops with the Aboriginal community at Lake Tyers, Victoria. I’m standing on the balcony of the Lake Tyers Indigenous Training Centre, with a view to the water. It’s a grey day,…
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It was the late ‘90s and I found myself riffing poetry for a then start-up company calling itself ‘Crumpler’. These bike couriers had realised the bags they’d sewn for themselves to carry packages were a better business proposition than making…
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The concept is so crazy, it’s genius. Hire a red double-decker bus and stick two poets on it.
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Every three weeks, seven-time Going Down Swinging contributor Paul Mitchell will provide insight into the practicalities of a writing life: from staying inspired to surviving. Once people get over their amazement that I remain a writer despite not having written…
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First, a pop quiz: which of these three statements is true? 1. When I went to school, I learnt to swim. I am now an Olympic swimmer. 2. I was taught maths at school. I’m now a mathematician. 3. My…
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