Writer's craft

Stead discusses her career, relationship to Australia and approach to writing among other topics.

Gwen Harwood is always having fun with the professors but the professors seem rather wary of her; at any rate they hardly ever write about…

Wilding discusses his career as writer and academic, literary influences, the relationship between writing and politics and Australian literary studies more broadly.

Exile, expatriation, migration, travel: a rhetoric of restlessness has underpinned Australia's chimerical search for national selfhood. Torn between the need for definition and the desire…

A poetry as carefully produced and sensitive to the dense interweavings of reality as that of Judith Beveridge can be difficult to describe since pulling…

Like the astute critic that he is, Don Anderson begins to digest his book Hot Copy for us in his Introduction—an attempt to have the…

Addicted as I am to radio, and even some television interviews, I find written interviews irritating. For me this newish and it seems increasingly popular…

Weller discusses the relationship between Aboriginal literature and (white) academia, and his approach to writing Aboriginality, particularly in terms of characterisation, form and style.

A demand that beliefs be embodied and presented, or indeed placed on trial, forms a persistent refrain of J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. It is…

Examines the relationship between autobiographical truths and 'fictional embroidering' in Richardson's autobiography in terms of its representation of familial relationships, arguing that the work is…

Wilding is much more than a creative writer. His contribution to Australian culture has been in a number of fields, three of which (creative writing…

At a crucial point in 'The Bathe: a grotesque', the opening story of a series which Henry Handel Richardson named 'Growing Pains: sketches of girlhood'…

Everyone knows that novelists, like painters, draw from life. What we need to understand is more about the ways particular novelists transform real people into…

Discusses critical responses to The Hand that Signed the Paper, and their perception of Darville/Demidenko.

Christopher Koch discusses his career and approach to writing.

Argues that in Koch's novel, 'two strands are continually in process: the inner and outer life, the world of values and the quotidian, the mythic…

The six, relatively neglected Australian novels of Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson, written between 1914 and 1935, present an intriguing and complex reworking of their author's…

Argues that a conception of Malouf's fiction as historical is simplistic. Malouf undertakes 'fictional revisitings of moments in Australian history—moments in which, in retrospect, significant…

Patrick White's novel A Fringe of Leaves (1976) is based on the shipwreck of the Stirling Castle north of Fraser Island in 1836, the subsequent…

Francis Webb's verse-sequence on St Francis of Assisi, 'The Canticle', from Birthday (1953) has been acknowledged as a watershed in his career (Griffith, Life and…