No, this won’t be one of those posts lamenting the ubiquity of dirigibles and fair maidens and their related plot points, so never fear.
The Melbourne Writers Festival is currently in full swing, with all sorts of exciting things listed in the programme during the hours of 9-5, when lucky people like me are sitting at [...]

Last week I received a flurry of frantic text messages from my grandmother telling me to enter a competition being run through an ABC radio show called NightLife.  The competition involved writing and sending in the first paragraph of the ‘great Australian novel’, which I did, or at least sort of did, given that mine [...]