M J Clark

Molly Murn is a friend. We’ve sat together around a bonfire, we drank wine and exchanged knowing looks. Once I heard her read one of her...

I recommend this book to you, dear reader, for what it’s worth. It is poetic and something of the musicality of the writing, and the main...

The Flaneur tradition started as a way of looking at the rich urban landscape of Paris in the 1800’s. It might be hard to reconcile that...

John Steinbeck’s ‘Journal of a Novel’ is a handy tool for any writer. In it, Steinbeck writes about his ambitions and fears for his ‘big...

Every time I sit down to write, I want to write about Kanye West but I don’t because I’m saving him for something special. Like I’m...

In verse 3 of ‘See You in My Nightmares’, the way Lil Wayne rhymes reminds me of how Aboriginal language works, how a word can change how...

Phillby read 'Summertime' by J.M. Coetzee this week after I was invited to read a story at the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice...

Jennifer had written postcards from Sydney to each of her sisters and their families and filled them with her truest longings: she missed...

Real life can be boring, so when I’m walking on my treadmill, I pretend I’m some kind of Owen Meany, preparing for a fateful future event...

In The Optometrist, Dave Thorne spends an afternoon espaliering his lemon tree. It makes him happy because it gives his day purpose,...

From Ali Cobby Eckerman’s collection Little Bit Long Time, her first poem “The Mountain” describes the act of writing, or the act of...

Writers would always prefer to talk about what they are writing rather than what they have written. I was reminded of this recently at a...