"In my first year of university a non-fiction tutor stood up in front of the class and announced that being a successful writer was almost an impossible goal"

We chat with Sian about her career as deputy editor of Overland Magazine and what it’s like working on the other side of the page.

"Coffee helps."

The free program for the 2017 Emerging Writers’ Festival is overflowing with a range of free events, conversations, parties and workshops - we round up a few of our favourites.

“I’m extremely lucky and trying very hard not to lose my cool”

I spent some time reading sad advice columns from sad writers and collated the advice for all of us floating around in this over-emotional dingy.

"Whenever people walk by my desk, I’m a little worried they’ll see I’m looking at BDSM photos or books like 'In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal'."

“I’m obsessed with figuring out how storytelling works.”