The Greatest Hits of 2019
Our top ten writing & comics of the year.
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Our top ten writing & comics of the year.
Continue reading“You see? This is how I write poetry. I write poems by breathing in and out.” —David Ishaya Osu
Continue reading“I mean I didn’t mean to kill the guy.” — Oliver Mestitz
Continue readingOn the last day of Bot-tober, Adalya Nash Hussein brings us a piece to really interact with.
Continue readingWithout a doubt, this is a group of writers to watch.
Continue readingWe’re talking about some of the most unconventional events at MWF18.
Continue readingBefore you send off that manuscript, read this guide first. By Rebecca Slater.
Continue readingDo writing events perpetuate the myth of the divinely inspired author? Antony Scholefield considers.
Continue readingWhat responsibilities do we have when publishing works that come from places of pain?
Continue readingShannon McKeogh asks: should we read our diaries for self-help?
Continue readingOmar J. Sakr learns to deal with the silence that comes with freelancing.
Continue readingFiona Broom tries to find the most elusive of powers.
Continue readingPRISM’s executive editor Clara Kumagai calls on you haters to get writing.
Continue readingSandra Hajda on what it means to write – and be read – in the internet age.
Continue readingYesterday, I had a brilliant idea for this column. I stood in the doorway of my lounge room and thought, Yes, that’s it; that will roll off the keyboard and be something people want to read and all will be…
Continue readingSocial media isn’t exactly new, but it’s still something that writers have only recently begun experimenting with.
Continue readingOnline editor Megan Anderson gives up a roof, friends and financial stability to write around Europe.
Continue readingOnline editor Megan Anderson gives up a roof, friends and financial stability to write around Europe.
Continue readingPaul Mitchell on finding the space to write.
Continue readingPaul 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…
Continue readingIt has taken me to almost thirty-fucking-two to finally understand a TV show about a caffeine-addled mother-daughter duo quipping their privileged way through small-town life.
Continue readingWriter and past Going Down Swinging editor Jessica Friedmann reflects on birth, language, and the wavering world. I’ve lost words. Eighteen months ago I had them; neatly lined up in a vast internal storehouse. I love words – always have…
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