My curiosity piqued by a question beneath a review on our blog of the latest harvest, I hurried home to read its editorial. And read its editorial I did – with a burgeoning sense of unease. The editorial responded to Ted Genoways’ article in Mother Jones earlier this year, ‘The death of fiction?’ Genoways argued […]

‘Mummy, what’s this?’ ‘Oh, that’s a book.’ ‘What’s a book?’ ‘A book is what people once used to keep stories and information in,before they had iPads.’ ‘Oh. What’s this?’ ‘Stone the crows! That’s a literary journal! I haven’t seen one of those since I was a girl!’ At the recent Sydney Writers’ Festival, Simon & […]

Kill Your Darlings has a lot to live up to. In its inaugural issue its editor, Affirm Press’ Rebecca Starford, says the journal’s mission is to ‘reinvigorate and re-energise’ Australia’s literary scene. She quotes editor Rob Spillman as saying that most journals are ‘good for you, but they taste awful’. KYD intends to redress this […]