Angela Meyer's Blog, page 4

Killings columnist

I’m delighted to join the Kill Your Darlingsteam as aLiterary Columnist forKillingsfor the remainder of 2015. My column will be:

Investigations into and explorations of literature and writing: literary places, literary lives and works, literary terms and methods, authors’ obsessions and concerns. Sometimes creative, often personal.

Readmore here.

I’ll post links to each piece as they go up.

There’s so much else going on – I can’t even – so have a squiz at the events page and my Facebook page...

What the wow

UPDATE: Published this then realised my blog turned EIGHT yesterday!

I spent half the day in my pyjamas and wrote 1181 words which just tipped my WEIRD Scottish manuscript over 50,000 (rough) words. Last night I saw Jack Ladder & the Dreamlanders and it rocked; I danced with a whisky in my hands and Jen Squire, who wrote this overwhelmingly lovely and amazing profile of me, would be interested to know that I actually put ice in it, because it was cheap stuff and I wanted to hydrate since I di...

I reached for his hand and felt the bones in it

Two flash stories originally published in The Lifted Brow Digital areavailable to read online now.

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Spark, flow, sigh: the erotics of body & mind on Killings

John William Waterhouse’s Mariana in the South, via VictorianWeb

Recently, as we sat around having a few drinks after a book launch, the poet Jennifer Compton asked the question, ‘Do you find writing to be an erotic act?’. My instinctive answer was ‘yes’, but I’ve been thinking about it ever since. How did I interpret the question? And why was my answer so sure?

Find out over at Killings.

Highbrow v Lowbrow: Kill Your Darlings/Digital Writers Festival

In which I defend highbrow lit-ra-cha!

Whisky nights

‘I’m compelled to write about the whisky bar. One reason is that my job as a commissioning editor is still so new and exciting, I’m learning so much, and I think I can write about that better down the track. Another reason is that I won’t have the bar job forever, and I want to capture something of it while I can.

‘I fell in love with single malt whisky, as many people do, in Scotland. It was a warm June day in 2011 when my partner Gerard and I walked into The Whisky Experience on The Royal Mi...

Projects and publications, plus an opportunity for online writers

It’s been a while since I updated, so I’ll shove it all in one post. First of all, Happy New Year! 2014 was an incredible year for me, though it started out rocky (I was unemployed for about two months). The highlights were finishing my doctorate, publishingCaptives, and having a story includedinBest Australian Stories 2014.

Another highlight wasreworking a chapter of my thesis and having it included in this book:The Simpsons Did It! Postmodernity in Yellow(eds Martin Tschiggerl and Thomas Wal...

A dystopic vision: The Ark by Annabel Smith

When I first heard about Annabel Smith’s project,The Ark, I was intrigued. Here was an excellent literary author (I’m a big fan of her novelWhisky Charlie Foxtrot) tackling not only speculative fiction, but a whole different format.The Ark is about the inhabitants of a sealed seed vault,in a near future where resources are rapidly dwindling. It was released as an interactive ebook, and is also available as a print book. The story is told through a series of technological documents. As the blu...

Best Australian Stories 2014, ed. Amanda Lohrey

I’ve really enjoyed reading this year’s Best Australian Stories(which includes my story ‘Too Solid Flesh’, originally published inIsland 137). One commonality I found between the stories, which reminded me of the power of fiction (what it cando), was an emotional complexity that can only be ‘shown’, not explained. For example, in Julienne van Loon’s ‘Bring Closer What is Left to Come’ there is a moment where the protagonist, a married woman who desires her colleague, thinks she sees her crush...

Submit to Cuttlefish

I’m the flash fiction editor for a new writing and art magazine,Cuttlefish, from Sunline Press in WA. I look forward to receiving your pieces (anonymously) of up to250 words. The publication will feature one artist’s work and also printpoetry, up to 40 lines, and longer pieces up to 1200 words. There will be a payment of $40 for all works.

Here are the details:

All submissions will be selected anonymously so writers should send a hard copy to Sunline Press, 21 Jarrad Street, Cottesloe, 6011, wi...