Open Mic Night 100
Whatever your talent, Busybird’s Open Mic Night is a great place to showcase your wares. And, of course, you can just come along and watch!
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Open Mic Night 99
Whatever your talent, Busybird’s Open Mic Night is a great place to showcase your wares. And, of course, you can just come along and watch!
The Scratching of Pen Nibs
Review of the Winter Solstice Writing Retreat, June 2021 Kinglake, Victoria is surrounded by trees and national park. On the third weekend of June 2021, it was also shrouded in … Continued
Authorial Voice
When editing, the line between improving and erasing authorial voice can be thin. An editor may find themselves curling their lip at an author’s prose, wanting to delete and start … Continued
[untitled] is back!
Hey, writers, Klurisa here, the new chief editor of [untitled], letting you know [untitled] is back! (Whoah! – the crowd goes wild). Oh! I love a great short story. Don’t you? Some … Continued
The Fallacy of Inspiration
In his excellent memoir, On Writing, Stephen King compares writing a story to discovering an artefact – you discover the story idea, but it’s encased in mud and dirt, and … Continued
Issue Seven Launches!
It’s a story that many of our regular readers will be familiar with: way back towards the end of 2008, a group of us – four writers and one illustrator/photographer … Continued
Ten Excuses
Everybody has a reason for why they don’t pursue what they want to do. With writers, it seems these reasons are even readier. Talk to many writers, ask them how … Continued