Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer
Biographer Richard Holmes wrote a book about writing books – specifically, biographies. “This exhilarating book, part biography, part autobiography…shows the biographer as sleuth and huntsman, tracking his subjects through space and time.” – Observer On the face of it Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer describes how Holmes retraced, on foot, a journey made through…
Varuna
Last year I won a Varuna Fellowship, which enabled me to spend two wonderful weeks at a house in the Blue Mountains (NSW, Australia) writing, thinking and talking with the four other writers who were staying there. We worked in silence all day, went for walks in and around world heritage listed Katoomba and shared…
Write like a Mother#^@%*&
Less an article and more of a wandering conversation between an emerging writer and an established one, this piece from Creative Non-Fiction provides some important messages. “Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it…