Journal
Articles
A dialogue across the sea
RUBY: WE HAVE some disagreements, my mother and I, and not only about fairy tales. Mum says that I'm...
The princesses
I wanted a different storyline for these fairytale girls with their hair of sunshine gold and lips that shame the rose, and frankly not much else going on between the ears.
The elusive Australian fairy tale
JACK AND THE Beanstalk, Henny Penny, The Three Bears, and The Three Little Pigs were collected by the folklorist...
Marina magic
An interview with Marina Warner MARINA WARNER STILL has her great-grandmother's copy of the Arabian Nights. It's in three volumes,...
The ultimate instability
WHEN WE WERE kids, I slept in the same room with my sister and two brothers. Our bunks were...
Interview with
Carmel Bird
Carmel Bird has written many books of short fiction, essays and novels, as well as manuals for writers. She...
Interview with
John Bryson
John Bryson is a former solicitor and barrister, now journalist, lecturer and fiction writer. His best-known work is Evil...
Interview with
Cecilia Condon
Cecilia Condon is a Melbourne based writer and actor. She works at the Wheeler Centre for The Emerging Writers'...
Interview with
Cate Kennedy
Cate Kennedy is a writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her most recent collection of stories, Like A House...
Interview with
Michelle Law
Michelle Law is a Brisbane writer whose work has appeared in Women of Letters (Penguin, 2011) Growing Up Asian...
Interview with
Danielle Wood
Danielle Wood is the author of a novel, The Alphabet of Light and Dark, a collection of short fiction,...
Interview with
Arnold Zable
Arnold Zable is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories and memoir. In this interview he speaks about the...
