Kill Your Darlings, October 2013

by Rebecca Starford (Editor), Michelle Dicinoski (Contributor), Melanie Joosten (Contributor)

EDITORIAL
Rebecca Starford

COMMENTARY
Michelle Dicinoski ‘Imaginary Futures: The Fight for Marriage Equality in Australia’
Zoë Barron ‘A Car Fire in Suburbia: Malicious Property Damage’
Sam Bolton ‘Crusades and Kinship: Live Action Role Play in Melbourne’
Pepi Ronalds ‘A Public Engagement: The Art of Controversy’
Laura Jean McKay ‘On Exchange: Things Taken and Things Left Behind’
Kerrin O’Sullivan ‘Gambling on a Day in Hinnomunjie: Dostoyevsky in the High Country’
Emma Rummery ‘Writing the Fear: Climbing Everest and Conquering Anxiety’
Kate Goldsworthy ‘Limitless Diversity: Fanfiction and the Future of the Book’

FICTION
Daniel Ducrou ‘Control’
Melanie Joosten ‘Just Like Us’

INTERVIEW
Kill Your Darlings in conversation with Laurent Binet

REVIEWS
Rebecca Howden ‘Beautiful and Damned: The Myths of Zelda Fitzgerald’
Julia Tulloh ‘What Happens Next?: 50 Years of Doctor Who‘
Stephanie Van Schilt ‘Posthumous and Personal: Remembering David Rakoff’

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2013

About the author

Rebecca Starford is the author of Bad Behaviour, a memoir about boarding school and bullying. The book was optioned for television by Matchbox Pictures and aired in Australia on STAN, as well as streamed through more than 20 other countries across the world.  Rebecca's first novel, The Imitator, was published in Australia, and in the United States, Canada, the UK and South Africa under the title An Unlikely Spy.  

She is also the co-founder and publishing director of Kill Your Darlings, and has previously worked for Text Publishing and Australian Book Review. Originally from Melbourne, Rebecca currently lives in France.