It’s 2pm on a Sunday in March and I’m sitting by the windowsill having my morning coffee. Ordinarily, my morning wouldn’t have started at 2pm,…
I was prepared for one of them to die. Before I left the UK to go travelling, I made a list of family members I…
I power up the dirt track on a rickety contraption of metal and gears. The path is bright orange in the dense jungle, a groove…
The groggy fog of your afternoon nap begins to dissipate. The thundery rumble of an ignored stomach calls you to action, and when the gnawing…
Bundarra is a tiny little village about an hour from Armidale, which is an hour and a half from Tamworth, or nearly three from Coffs…
We’ve been trotting the globe running writing workshops for the last few years, but in the wake of corona-induced uncertainty, the current need to stay…
Since February, we’ve been receiving bulk emails from panicked students, universities and parents about whether our upcoming overseas writing workshops will go ahead. The safety…
Let’s Start With the Basics, What’s a Primary? A primary is how American political parties select their candidates for election. These are held at all…
Travel fucks with you. It really does. Travelling makes you confront how lonely you truly are in this world. It unforgivably tosses you into some…
I am not a religious person. I consider the existence of god with an agnostic shrug and struggle to understand the conservatism of my church-going…
Jason*, our Hugh-Grant-lookalike Airbnb host, was prone to wild sporadic fits of weeping. It was the kind of animal uncontrollable wailing that you often hear…
I’m standing in a carriage on the Tokyo subway, scrolling through my newsfeed. A familiar place pops up, Mallacoota. When I was there a few…
