The green-eyed monster wants to move to Melbourne, and who can blame him? The Mexicans can boast of some pretty damn fine writers fests, journals and publishers. This week, we pay homage to the city of literature. We nab a couple of fantastic guests of the Melbourne Writers Festival, M J Hyland and Anne Michaels, and get them to shine a little light on some of the things that fiction does particularly well, and the things that perhaps only fiction can do. We've also got details of an exciting new Melbourne-based literary quarterly, and news about a great zine-making workshop that—hurrah!—you don't have to go to Melbourne to attend.
M J Hyland, This Is How, Text Publishing - interviewed by Benedict Taylor
Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault, Allen and Unwin - interviewed by Rochelle Fernandez
More information about Seven Letter Words here
More information about the zine-making workshop at the NSW Writers Centre, with Vanessa Berry on 24 October here
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