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I sometimes use Adelaide (South Australia), as a backdrop to my stories. It is one of the weirdest and scariest places on earth. It’s known for sex crimes and where ideas go to die. The story below is par for the course. “Former Disability Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes says he was left feeling distressed and…

The real cost of launching a literary career? Imprisoning the wrong man for 16 years. A rape conviction at the centre of a memoir by award-winning author Alice Sebold has been overturned because of serious flaws with the 1982 prosecution. Anthony Broadwater, who spent 16 years in prison, was cleared on Monday by a judge…

To balance my relatively negative perceptions and experience of creative writing programs, I should cite someone who think’s they’re fab. The link below is from Griffith Review. The writer makes some good points although I disagree with many of them.

I’m a big fan of Haruki Murakami. He released a collection of short stories called First Person Singular a few months ago and I couldn’t put it down. These are masterful stories all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator, who may or may not be the author. Some of them such…

I laughed out loud when I read this by story by Peter Free in the Sydney Morning Herald. I’ve been writing short stories for about six years and if I write PC-aligned stories, I usually do well in awards or competitions, although I’ve doubted their worth. Unfortunately, most of my stories don’t conform to any…