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May 9, 20215 min read
Writing of the Week - 'Only If You Want To'
Bella looked up. The sky was a beautiful blue with soft, puffy drifting clouds. The sun was shining brightly. She loved the feel of its...
sydneysoa
Apr 29, 20213 min read
Man who believes he knows the mind of God? That's one dangerous man.
Did you catch the latest information about Prime Minister Scott Morrison's speech to a Pentecostal Christian conference on the Gold...
sydneysoa
Apr 17, 20211 min read
Prose poem - King of the Bludgers
Overheard at an upmarket emporium recently - if you can believe it: 'The unemployed are as common as Floridian alligators. Dole bludgers...
sydneysoa
Apr 8, 20212 min read
Feather duster
I look up at Pedro, my face tilted to one side. He strokes the feathers on the back of my neck, fiddles with my crest, and gently...
sydneysoa
Mar 25, 20213 min read
A Fishy Tale - Writing of the Week
We've all heard the expression, 'a fish out of water'. Well, this week's memoir piece from Jasmine Monk is a life story 'extraordinaire'....
sydneysoa
Mar 15, 20211 min read
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
More than 100,000 women marched across Australia today, protesting sexual harassment and violence against women. The marches urging women...
sydneysoa
Mar 10, 20212 min read
Jack Mundey lives on
Who would have thought back in the '70s that Builders Labourers' unionist, Jack Mundey, would be honoured after his death by thousands of...
sydneysoa
Mar 8, 20212 min read
The best writing draws on both the individual and the universal
At first glance this statement appears erudite, but stripped down it is possibly nothing more than a pretentious declaration of the...
sydneysoa
Feb 27, 20212 min read
Vale Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The once young and dynamic American poet and publisher, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, died in late February at the age of 101. You've heard his...
sydneysoa
Feb 22, 20212 min read
What is Good Writing?
Answer: The great windmill that most writers in all languages all over the world tilt at, as their life's quest. The major Australian...
sydneysoa
Feb 15, 20214 min read
TRUMP CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP
Donald Trump, citizen, no longer President, may have escaped impeachment by the US Congress over the weekend but many of us can take...
sydneysoa
Feb 7, 20213 min read
WRITING OF THE WEEK
A dialogue-based story by David Benn which raises questions of language tropes, cultural change and parental responsibility. SAME BUT...
sydneysoa
Jan 28, 20212 min read
Write hot, edit cold
This adage still holds true today. After the rush and, often, exhilaration, of getting down a scene just as you remember it for memoir,...
sydneysoa
Jan 18, 20211 min read
‘Write hard and clear about what hurts.’
A quote from Ernest Hemingway. Is this what drove him to the bottle? The pain that writing unearths? For unearthing is what needs to be...
sydneysoa
Jan 18, 20211 min read
Good morning 2021
The flowers woke to another day, which was good, because some things didn’t wake at all. Our subjects didn’t have a need to turn to the...
sydneysoa
Dec 31, 20202 min read
2020 'That's a wrap'
Jane continued on with the million tasks she had that day. Remembering to put the towels in the dryer; making sure Jack had his banana...
sydneysoa
Dec 30, 20201 min read
2020 - It's been a wild ride for some
Memories of war we let dissolve in our wake, though ash still covers our hands. In that, we forget the cause of our tragedy, and not...
sydneysoa
Dec 29, 20201 min read
No getting away from it ... just yet
As the press of G-force eased, Lyria slowly leaned forward, to the extent that she could - just enough to bring a millimetre of space...
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