We are thrilled to be hosting a special live Bloc Club event at the Emerging Writers' Festival.

The event is 100% FREE, and kicks off at 12.30pm today at the festival club at 1000 £ Bend in Melbourne's CBD.

Join Ruth Clare in conversation with Bri Lee, as they discuss Enemy, Ruth's memoir of her childhood and her Vietnam-War veteran father. 

Writers Bloc, is a place for writers, and all good writers are great readers.

is do not reference Chuck Palahniuk?

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Perhaps the best advice I’ve been given on writing is to read more. Read the classics, read popular paperbacks, grab the first time novelist or one of the cast of characters you’ll often see at your local bookshop. Because, it will teach you something about writing.

But often I find it’s easy to get caught up in the daily dross and forget about the important things in life: exercise, reading, eating.

The stories below were created, on sticks, as part of an unfolding narrative for the Writers Bloc Party Picnic. Each writer could only see the previous panel, without any knowledge of where the story started or where it would go. Each story was then stuck into the ground and led down three separate paths. One ended in books, the other two in TimTams in picnic baskets (everyone’s a winner!)

Here at Writers Bloc, like the Vengaboys, we like to party. Sometimes it’s nice to get out from behind the desk and meet other writers. And what better excuse to do that than a sunny day, book swapping and hanging out in the park?

The following is a loosely based recount of the days frivolity.

Hang in there, baby!

Ah, November 18. More than halfway through the slog that is NaNoWriMo.

This post was prompted by the EWF Hobart road show, and was written by Connor Tomas O’Brien.

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Picture from Connor Tomas O’Brien

We love writing here at Writers Bloc (der). But sometimes, we like getting up from the desk and hanging out with rad people. In keeping with the idea that writers benefit from meeting other writers, we’ve got a bunch of things happening in the next month or so, that we reckon are a bit of alright.

Looking forward to seeing all your smiling faces.

Geoff

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Writers Bloc Party

How’s it going NaNoWriMo people?

Are you basking in early creative freedom? Or crippled by writers block with a k? Maybe it’s bouts of both.

On Saturday, Geoff went to the Creative Non-Fiction Festival at the NSW Writers’ Centre and has brought back some great tips from the very talented panellists that might help you stay focused over the next month. Especially, the final session titled Writers’ Toolkit.

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It’s been a while since the dust has settled on the National Young Writers’ Festival. But let’s be honest, we kicked it up pretty hard.

Being in Newcastle over the Labour Day weekend really is one of the highlights of my year. There’s a beach to rival any other city beach, an influx of all your favourite people and one of the most exciting and enduring Arts festival in Australia.