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Dear Miss Fortune: A Cover Letter

Cam Gilmour writes a cover letter to address the needs of carping employers everywhere.
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Composing Online Languages

Rafael S. W.
Articles

Good Grief: How Loss in ABC’s Glitch Leads to Magical Thinking

Matilda Dixon-Smith
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The Sensitive Artist's Guide to the World Cup

Ben Pobjie
Articles

Hettie Jones: Writing Behind Beats & Bars

Megan Anderson
Megan Anderson chats to Beat legend Hettie Jones.
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‘Angie Hart Made Me Want to Move to Melbourne’: Stories of Loving a Local Singer

Julia Tulloh, Killings Oct 2012

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Stories and Poems:

Stories & Poems

Two People Write Letters to each Other about Things That Happen While They are Travelling in Different Countries Even Though, Sometimes, Not a Lot Actually Happens: Part III

Oliver Mol, Katia Pase
Oliver Mol and Katia Pase revive the epistolary form by writing to each other – across continents.
Stories & Poems

Forms of Convenience

Jamie Marina Lau
Stories & Poems

Welcome To Bot-tober
Stories & Poems

Dress Young

David Prater
Stories & Poems

Excerpt from 'The Novel Teacher'

This is a sneak preview from our up-coming Going Down Swinging #33 from Eric Yoshiaki Dando’s short story The Novel Teacher. We will be launching the new GDS #33...
Comics

Sir Tramsalot

On Writing:

On Writing

Bridging the Writer/Non-Writer Divide

Do writing events perpetuate the myth of the divinely inspired author? Antony Scholefield considers.
On Writing

A Freelancer's Guide to Europe: Provence

Megan Anderson
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Initially NO

Adam Ford
On Writing

Editing from the Country

Rhys Tate
On Writing

Sender Beware: Editorial Bias in Australian Poetry

Paul Mitchell
Paul Mitchell examines the editorial biases at work in the Australian poetry community.
On Writing

The Meditations Part IV: Anne M. Carson on 'The Limits of Goodwill'

Anne M. Carson

The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Patrick Lenton
More like Theodore Dreiser-bone. That was a witty quip to connote that he’s boring, and not some kind of reference to a rural raincoat.
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

The Art of Fiction by Henry James

Bridget Lutherborrow
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Bridget Lutherborrow
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Bridget Lutherborrow
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Patrick Lenton
I feel this book almost directly correlates with Rory’s ‘awakening’ at the hands of bad-boy Jess.
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Patrick Lenton