The Reader

The Reader Vol 2

The Reader – Volume 2

The Reader brings together ideas and insights into the craft, philosophy and politics of being a writer. It’s about writing and everything that comes with that: editing and publishing, motivation and distraction, the missed opportunities and the poetics of failure. With articles, essays, poems, fiction and artworks, The Reader blurs the lines between the creative and the critical, ultimately asking, what is it to be a writer?

Highlights include:

  • Sean M Whelan on performing poetry
  • Greg Foyster on freelancer rates
  • Sam Twyford-Moore on writing and depression
  • Damon Young on distraction
  • Craig Schuftan on love and lyrics
  • Daniel Ducrou on community
  • Jen Breach on writers as speakers

And many more contributors, including Paul Callaghan, Sam Cooney, Matt Davies, Paola Di Trocchio, Chris Flynn, Pat Grant, Caroline Hamilton, Jennifer Hamilston, Jill Jones, Darryn King, Gabrielle Maait, Imogen Melgaard, Janelle Moran, SC Patton, Jana Perkovic, Gig Ryan, Laurie Steed, Philip Thiel, Sean M Whelan and Susan White.

Edited by Aden Rolfe. Published November 2010.


The Reader Vol 1

The Reader – Volume 1

The Reader combines highlights of our sell out 2009 festival with general writing information and new creative works across various writing forms.

The Reader is a resource for emerging writers, a “how-to” of advice and information, a collection of stories and experiences from both established and emerging writers, publishers, editors and other literary movers and shakers.

The Reader is about the craft, the approaches, the techniques and processes; the discipline(s), the forms, the experiments; the inner life, the social life, the lifestyle, the ups and downs, the tricks and the tribulations, the fun and the failure…

Including works by Clem Bastow, Mel Campbell, Kathy Charles, Andrew Hutchison, Tiggy Johnson, Krissy Benjamin Law, Meg Mundell, Jennifer Mills, Ryan Paine and many, many more!

Edited by Dion Kagan.