Continuing
This essay appears in The Fuse Box: Essays on Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters At some point in every writer’s life they’ll find themselves facing the question, ‘Why write?’ Because it can be a lonely slog, and you have to like it. Because it’s always been difficult to make any money, […]
My Interview for YALSA
This is an interview I did for The Hub website. Julie Bartel provided the questions. It is mostly about my teenaged self. One Thing Leads to Another: An Interview with Elizabeth Knox
Letting in the Ghosts: Why certain things are in Mortal Fire
I keep producing blogs that are highly finished pieces of writing, like essays. Which isn’t to say I labour over them, more that I keep feeling each has to be a thing in itself. But that’s not what blogs are for. So this one is just a few thoughts about how I came to write […]
My Workspace
I guess this piece could be titled ‘How I came to change the way in which I do everything’. It could go two ways—and I’ve decided it’s better to resist neither, to do both, even if one is personal and might seem beside the point of workspaces, and the other will make me sound like […]
Next Big Thing
Margo Lanagan tagged me for this chain interview—her responses to the questions are here Margo’s Next Big Thing is her magnificent novel, Sea Hearts. I’m tagging Dylan Horrocks. His answers should be up a week after mine. Dylan is in the home straight of his graphic novel Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen. Yay! Here […]