Stephanie Bishop
Stephanie Bishop is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of New South Wales. Her new novel The Other Side of the World will be published later this year.
All essays by Stephanie Bishop
The same but different: 10:04 by Ben Lerner
Like a night of vivid, randomly connected dreams, the content of 10:04 holds together in hindsight. The catalogue form of recollection permits this: and then, and then, and then … It is easy, in this way, to smooth the novel out and make a neatish summary of its events and concerns. But if we look closely, we find that references to when things occur in time are often missing.
Horses for courses: On Writing by A.L. Kennedy
It is Kennedy’s belief that lived experience is essential to the writing process and needs to be integrated into the way writing is taught. Inviting a horse to the writing workshop is not her only irreverent suggestion. She also proposes that the student group and their teacher might benefit from sharing a meal, attending a concert together, or taking a walk.