Individual authorship has come a long way in the Western world, having been the preserve of the elites in ancient and medieval times. The...

1. It takes much brain power to make words run along. 2. Easier to put thoughts down in jumbled mess than make perfect story and ... 3....

The romantic side of me wants to say write what I like! Don’t sell out, do good work and keep your integrity. Yet the more business side...

SSOA's writing group facilitator announced there'd be no writing prompt this week. What did she mean? That we were to slack off, give up...

Supporters in the campaign to save Julian Assange gathered peacefully at Hyde Park's Archibald Fountain in Sydney today. They called on...

Responses by SSOA emerging writers to the weekly writing prompt above: Which genre is safest, life story or fiction? In both genres,...

Robert Carrick a member of SSOA's Write Club on Tuesday evenings, undertook a fictional interpretation of the last part of Emily...

Yes, that's the first part of American poet Emily Dickinson's famous quote ... We'll deal with the later part - in relation to writing -...

With due respect for the Australian men and women who have been killed in war and are honoured on Anzac Day, I would like to send out a...

To look forward, all you have to do is cast your mind ahead a few years. Use your inner crystal ball and with enough imagination, you...

This week's writing prompt for members of Sydney School of Arts & Humanities' writing groups was the simple phrase 'looking back ...'...

So what's new? Humans have been chiding, encouraging, abusing and singing the praises of their tools since time immemorial - that is,...

She paddled out in the early light. The sun was on the horizon with the promise of a sparkling blue day. It had just turned springtime,...

Or is it vice versa? What is one person's treasure is another's trash. The prompt for SSOA emerging writers this week could range from...

Since May 2022, nearly 4,300 Ukrainians have arrived in Australia, many taking refuge in Sydney. Most are women with young children, as...

This week's writing prompt for SSOA emerging writers gets right to the nitty gritty. Just how intelligent is intelligence gathering for a...

I’m lucky enough to live in a part of New South Wales where I haven’t been affected by natural disasters like floods and bushfires. But...

'I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.' ― Charles Chaplin The storm had passed, and the eucalyptus forest at...

With personal security still unresolved after a certain Australian-Singaporean telco allowed a hacker to ransom millions of customers'...

Members of Sydney School of Arts & Humanities writers' groups were this week given the task of writing a response to the above prompt,...