Writer's world

INFORMATION about early colonial literary personalities is almost always hard to get, and in the case of Henry Kingsley who was nearly five years in…

'The theatre's not a dedication,' says Porter as he walks. 'My plays are more in the nature of plans for novels. They bring in handy…

The article for the first time discusses Hewett’s early unpublished poetry which still exists only in manuscript and typescript in the National Library of Australia…

Hanna stresses the importance of the “child-vision” in Neilson’s poetry and its connection to Neilson’s idea of Love. Hanna argues that the two children in…

In paying tribute to Dorothy Green, Sheridan recalls the generation of women writers and artists who emerged in the 1940s and 1950s, their social visions…

Using biographical criticism as its methodological starting point, Kinnane’s article discusses Johnston’s way of creating fiction out of personal experience, highlights where he departs from…

From the vantage point of the present, the idea that Australian writing needs standard-bearers (self-chosen advocates, driven by their own inner vision) probably strikes the…

Nancy Keesing discusses her work editing and publishing short stories.

Dossetor shares personal memories of the writers Kenneth Seaforth Mackenzie and E.L. Grant Watson.

Sarah Campion, an ardent traveller, spent several months in Sydney and in North Queensland in 1939. Many of her experiences and observations in Europe, North…

Includes the text of a letter Christina Stead written to her stepmother Thistle Stead in 1942 regarding her novel The Man Who Loved Children (1940).

Argues that Facey’s autobiography shows ‘just how persuasive the art of understatement is … in the writing of this ordinary Australian, addressing the larger issues…

A review essay of Peter Alexander's biography Les Murray: A Life in Progress with reference to broader considerations of biographical writing and the authorial subject.

Alan Gould discusses his literary career, approach to writing, and influences.