A debate which has been brewing for a long time flared up again recently: should writers expect to be paid for writing for publication on the internet? Online publications Mamamia and The Hoopla recently published pieces on why they don’t pay writers (Mamamia) and why they do (The Hoopla). The Mamamia article in particular seems…
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Right in time for Christmas, Lip Magazine has some copies of the new fantasy-drama series Once Upon A Time to giveaway! Set in a town called Storybrook in Maine, an adopted boy sets out to find his birth mother who holds the power to break a curse that was cast hundreds after of years –…
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I imagine being the “crème de la crème” sounds tantalisingly delicious to children of an impressionable age. For one, foreign words to young ears always sound exotic and important, for another, it is the sort of phrase likely to be picked up from an adult, and most children wish to be older than they are,…
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As we draw closer and closer to Christmas, I admire my younger sibling’s excitement about the holiday and the jolly old man who makes it all possible. They approach Christmas with wonder whilst I simply view it as a great excuse to eat enormous amounts of food. Their endearing ability to find magic in the…
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Ida Jessen is a popular and award-winning Danish author whose 2009 work, The Children, has recently been published in English. Beginning in 1992, The Children opens with recently divorced Solvej renting a house in isolated Hvium so she can be with her daughter, Christiane. While Solvej is eager to find a place to belong, her…
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It’s like the Australian poetry scene’s twelve-monthly check-up; the so-called “best” of the year’s poems, as chosen from around three thousand submissions, with a little over one hundred making the cut. It is John Tranter’s second and final year as editor of the series, which changes editors regularly to keep the collections fresh. In his…
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The Fault in our Stars is one of those books. A book that’s hype and acclaim is deserved, and one that stays with you days after you have put it down. A book that makes you laugh just as much as it makes you cry and wonder why bad things happened to good (read: fictional) people….
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Are you a fan of the popular series Grey’s Anatomy? Well Lip Magazine has some copies of the eighth season to giveaway on DVD! With 24 drama packed episodes, follow Derek and Meredith trying to save their marriage by adopting a child; see Richard stepping down as Chief of Surgery as Owen takes over; and watch the fifth…
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A friend of mine recently wrote a post over on XOJane entitled ‘When Activism Gives Way to Advertising: How Fatshion Blogging Ate Itself’ (she didn’t pick the title, but the pun makes me lol childishly). In it, she describes feeling alienated from the fatshion blogging world and how it has also been saturated by the…
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Opera is one of those things you either love or hate. For most members of Gen-y, the latter view prevails; we have all heard the jokes of ‘fat lady singing’ and the likes. Yet, if there was ever an opera to challenge the view of the genre as out-dated and inaccessible, Opera Australia’s production of Salome…
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The Member of the Wedding (1946) is a tale of the search for belonging, played out against the individual struggle of adolescence, and the larger catastrophe of World War II. Frankie Adams is a lanky twelve year-old girl, desperate to find a group to belong to. She becomes fixated with the idea of joining her…
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With 2 Days In New York, Julie Delpy has delivered a sweet and funny second instalment to the story of her character Marion, whose rocky love life and wacky family provide both humour and food for thought. First introduced in 2 Days In Paris, this time Marion is in New York. While the characters are…
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This week’s Up & Comer is Sarah D, originally from Adelaide, and now based in LA. If you would like to be featured as an Up & Comer on Lip, email Zoya at editor@lipmag.com! Tell us a bit about yourself! I am a Polish/Australian, pop/rock artist, born and bred in the humble city of…
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Try as we may (and many intellectuals and creatives alike might), taking a real peek into our subconscious is impossible. By definition, the subconscious is something that lurks beneath the surface of consciousness. If we were to theoretically retrieve whatever’s beneath that surface, it would then be brought to the forefront of our consciousness….
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