This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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‘We’ve had a nice, long period of American literary culture as the dominant literary culture of the world. It might just be time for other national literatures to become the epicentres of literary value.’ Great interview with critic Merve Emre.
The New Yorker Critic with Her Eye on Australia
An interview with Merve Emre
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“The independents that survive will be smaller, more reliant on philanthropic intervention, but will be the guardians of high-quality fiction and non-fiction”. Great long-form interview with Merve Emre here at @killyourdarling.bsky.social www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/merv...
The New Yorker Critic with Her Eye on Australia
An interview with Merve Emre
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A fascinating and compelling interview with writer and critic Merve Emre by @suzygracias.bsky.social at Kill Your Darlings. It seriously has you reconsidering how you approach reading, writing and thinking
The New Yorker Critic with Her Eye on Australia
An interview with Merve Emre
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For the industry types, there is an insanely good easter egg embedded here as well!
Martin Shaw@thebooksdesk.bsky.social · last yr.“I once worked for a lit publisher who, when I asked for time in a pub schedule to allow for a single round of copyediting, said, ‘You moving a few commas around isn’t going to sell any more copies.’” @radiomoderation.bsky.social @kydmagazine.bsky.social www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/the-...
Really proud of @kydmagazine.bsky.social's gorgeous new website! The animations, the buttons 😍 This upgrade has been months in the making. Special thanks to our head of digital strategy Mia Abrahams and editor @suzygracias.bsky.social for all their hard work as we got this over the finish line!
Kill Your Darlings@kydmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.It's been a big few weeks at KYD! 🎉 We’ve been working behind the scenes to keep KYD your go-to for great Australian writing, as well as the place for practical, hands-on resources for writers. PS. We revamped our website, check it out: buff.ly/6PI5XM5
I interviewed Amy Heckerling, director of my favourite movie, Clueless, for its 30th anniversary this week www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/w...
“What would Jane Austen do?”: Amy Heckerling on Clueless at 30
Thirty years on, Clueless director Amy Heckerling looks back at remodelling Jane Austen in modern Beverly Hills, her struggles to get a foothold in the film industry, and why she’s nothing like the bu...
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I came close to writing a hatchet job once, writes Declan Fry. I was amused, confused and a little disturbed by how popular the piece became. Criticism should offer more than a cut-throat execution. bit.ly/3Ti0hQ7
Beyond the Takedown
Criticism should offer more than a cut-throat execution.
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New: It’s absurd and embarrassing in a liberal democracy to have to say this, but people shouldn’t be punished for protesting against genocidal oppression, or speaking about it. So many cultural institutions have done this very thing though - and damaged themselves in the process.
The Lattouf case and the ongoing chilling effects
On pro-Israel pressure campaigns and Australia’s cultural organisations
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Also v happy from 1 July @kydmagazine.bsky.social will increase our min payments to nonfiction writers to $700 per piece. KYD members, @suzygracias.bsky.social and I have also created 'How to Pitch' for you, designed to turn your pitches into publication! www.killyourdarlings.com.au/how-to-pitch...
How to Pitch: Online Course — Kill Your Darlings
Want to learn how to craft the perfect pitch? How to Pitch with Kill Your Darlings offers an insider's guide to the pitching and publishing process.
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Sad that @kydmagazine.bsky.social will no longer be a publishing partner or judge in the SLQ Young Writers Award as we believe in supporting early-career writers but we reject political interference and censorship of the library's award processes and have to call it out.
Kill Your Darlings@kydmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.No to censorship in our cultural institutions. A statement of support for black&write! Read more: bit.ly/4jmcGNe
I have never read a book by a man. They don’t publish them.
wrote something very silly about one of the less soul-crushing ways to spend time online
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · last yr.Looking for the last human place on the internet? Try Google Maps
LE MONDE asked me to write an article about American literature in the age of Trump, but then decided it didn't like what I wrote. Oh well. Here it is in LitHub: "Most American literature is the literature of empire."
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire
One way to understand the dilemma of contemporary American literature in the age of Donald Trump is to see it as an imperial literature. The United States is a different kind of empire, exerting gl…
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We're delighted to announce the winner of the KYD Flash Fiction Prize 2025! buff.ly/QfamiAV
Announcing the KYD Flash Fiction Prize Winner
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Growing up with an absent father has its unique challenges. In this tender piece of memoir, Isla Croft explores how a tragic accident forced her to reckon with the dad-shaped hole in her life. buff.ly/jj5UWP5
Dads Just Leave
A tragic accident forced me to reckon with the father-shaped hole in my life.
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KYD commissioned me to take a look back on The Book Club (2006 - 2017) and what I found was a long storied history of film, book and cultural criticism on ABC TV, but a complete dearth of that sort of coverage today, when it should be easier and cheaper to make than ever.
Kill Your Darlings@kydmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.ABC TV’s 'First Tuesday Book Club' brought the literary salon to Australian television screens. Seven years since it was taken off the air, Sam Twyford-Moore uncovers what we’re missing in the absence of regular televised arts criticism. buff.ly/qIqlvBz
ABC TV’s 'First Tuesday Book Club' brought the literary salon to Australian television screens. Seven years since it was taken off the air, Sam Twyford-Moore uncovers what we’re missing in the absence of regular televised arts criticism. buff.ly/qIqlvBz
Bringing Back 'The Book Club'
At turns entertaining and bemusing, rewatching ABC TV’s book show highlights a scarcity of televised arts criticism.
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Month-old baby girl pulled from rubble in Gaza after air strike kills parents
Month-old baby girl pulled from rubble in Gaza after air strike kills parents
The baby’s parents and brother were killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike that levelled their home
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The collective punishment of Gaza must end. We call on the Australian government to take substantial action pressuring Israel towards an immediate and permanent ceasefire.
Cosy reads from Japan and Korea are booming and Western publishers are cashing in. Nina Culley explores why there is much more to this multifaceted genre than cats, cafes and bowls of steaming ramen. buff.ly/JLUXuUY
The Aggressive Commodification of Cosy Asian Fiction
Japanese and Korean literature is booming and Western publishers are cashing in.
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Diana Reid burst onto the literary scene with her bestselling award-winner 'Love & Virtue'. In our latest Show Your Working interview, she talks about finding inspiration, cultivating multiple work streams and her latest novel, 'Signs of Damage'.
Show Your Working: Diana Reid
The 'Signs of Damage' author shares her writing routine.
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In this episode, Tenille chats with essayist and critic Cher Tan about her book Peripathetic, what makes a great book review, the impact of the internet on writing and culture, and producing art in the era of late capitalism.
Edits & Annotations: 8. Cher Tan: On Art, Capitalism and the Internet
In this episode, Tenille chats with essayist and critic Cher Tan about her book Peripathetic, what makes a great book review, the impact of the internet on writing and culture, and producing art in...
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Jess Scully, founder of Vivid Ideas and former deputy lord mayor of Sydney, on the importance of arms-length arts funding. Read more: https://buff.ly/4klIiEH
“The leadership and board should know better than most that culture wars don’t end with one scalp” - Jess Scully at @kydmagazine.bsky.social www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/who-...
Who Stands with the Arts?
Creative Australia’s troubling decision signals an authoritarian turn we can’t ignore.
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