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Scaring people ‘sh*tless’: the craft of crime writing
We got settled in our seats, while chairman John Green looked out over us, his sweeping gaze settling on everyone. He asked us to trust him. “Don’t turn around,” he said. “Don’t panic. Don’t leave your...
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Classic crime fiction and its new protagonists
At the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival authors Sulari Gentill, Stuart Littlemore, Shane Maloney and Kel Robertson gave us their thoughts on how they developed their protagonists, plotting and if they read...
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The Nature of Corruption: glorified, vilified and at the heart of our culture
Matthew Condon, P.M. Newton, Tara Moss, & Moya Sayer-Jones on The Nature of Corruption. Photo: Cath Piltz The boiling frog anecdote questions our ability and/or our willingness to react to,...
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Fiction meets reality, says hi and writes a book.
It’s quite a well-known saying, that reality is stranger than fiction. Three authors, Sulari Gentill, Nick Earls and Stuart Littlemore have written stories based on real life, and these stories have...
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After Auschwitz, there can be no more poetry
During the closing session of the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival 2012, some of the darker themes of writing were explored in Going To The Dark Side. Chaired expertly by Ashley Hay, the panellists Tony...
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A Murder of Crime Writers in Confession
Once arrested fleeing from the site of a crime, Lenny Bartulin was scared straight. Tasmanian police put the hard word on Bartulin and his mates who tried to deny their public urination but were given...
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