In our first What We’re Reading feature of 2024, check out what the Writing NSW team has been enjoying and why! Read our thoughts on poetry collections, anthologies, fiction, short story and more.
“I tell myself to forget about the potential audience/publication for a moment, and remember ultimately I write first and foremost for myself – then I find it becomes easier to let go, to let myself loose and see where that boldness and vulnerability takes me. The poem knows when you are holding back.”
See what the Writing NSW staff have enjoyed the most in 2023, and what we’ll be reading over the holidays to end the year!
‘Sometimes a poem just needs to “find the right home”. I believe it’s crucial to remain optimistic and never give up on your craft. Be true to your own unique experience: what you know, feel, and wish to communicate — and the manner in which you want to do it.’
This month the Writing NSW team has been reading anthologies and journals, memoir, speculative fiction, non-fiction and new fiction releases.
This month the Writing NSW team has been devouring fiction, essay, poetry, memoir and short story, read on for what we’ve been enjoying!
This month the Writing NSW team has been devouring poetry, fiction and non-fiction, read on for what we’ve been enjoying!
‘The interplay between the desire for brevity and longer forms has always been something poets have been able to play with…poetry is infinitely flexible, it gives us so many ways to reach out to the reader.’
‘Process, for me, is a compound and an evolution of the known and unknown. Eventually I wound up here as a poet obsessed with this ineffable substance I hear in the storytelling of my Elders. I don’t know if should call it poetics or spirit but it exists in just about everything …’