Imagine this:
It’s a late Tuesday evening and you’ve said goodnight to everyone. You’ve gone upstairs to bed. You’re very tired and you soon fall fast asleep...
Earlier today I put out a call on Twitter asking for some recommendations for writing guides that went beyond the basics and toolkit-talk. I was looking for som...
When the 22-year-old Ernest Hemingway relocated to Paris in 1921 some of the century’s greatest experimental writers were already there. At the forefront of lit...
Essay by Peter Jordan
The opening sentence is crucial in a short story, yet so many writers get this wrong. Often, writers get so caught up in the need to pr...
I came to Doris Lessing’s story ‘To Room Nineteen’ several years after reading her seminal novel The Golden Notebook. Originally published in Lessing’s short s...
Peter Jordan’s essay on ‘priming’ in this early Hemingway story sent me scurrying to the Finca Vigia collection. I’d read the story before, but not given it due...
Three years ago a poet friend, Jim Norcliffe, told me about the upcoming New Zealand National Flash Fiction Day. At that point I hadn’t read any flash fiction a...
