In this week’s column, I’m looking at a new publishing platform which emerged from the digital book boom. There is no question that the boom has brought about a plethora of new digital publishers and new self-publishing opportunities. However, short story download site Alfie Dog Fiction, launched in May this year, are doing things a…
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So Clementine Ford can afford to eat. She must be doing something seriously write (intentional pun) because some of us can’t. You know what? It’s not good enough. It’s twenty freaking twelve and it’s just really poo that people aren’t getting paid for following their heart, acting on their bliss and servicing other people –…
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Northern Girls is the first of Sheng Keyi’s novels to be translated into English. Keyi was born in southern China’s Hunan province in 1970, and like Northern Girls‘s protagonist Qian, she left in search of life in a bigger, brighter city. It is Qian’s search for identity — particularly that of being a young women…
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In theory, The Last Holiday is an autobiographical account of the concert tour which resulted in legislation to make Martin Luther King’s birthday a public holiday. Author Gil Scott-Heron did a huge 41-city tour, supporting Stevie Wonder throughout America. The tour promoted Wonder’s Hotter than July album, which included the song “Happy Birthday” – a…
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The other day, while bored at work (as per usual), I decided to look at Fanfiction.net on a whim. For those who don’t know about the wonderful website, Fanfiction.net is one of the world’s largest fanfiction websites, and covers a huge number of genres. Writers can upload their own fanfics (or ‘fics’ as we called…
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A couple of weeks ago I reviewed Nicole Trilivas’s debut novel Pretty Girls Make Graves. I spoke to Nicole about her candid writing regarding sex, what’s coming next in her writing, and iconic females in literature. The narration and content of the book is very raw and honest, particularly when it comes to sex, and motivations…
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I clearly identify myself as a feminist. I write for lip and link articles from Jezebel on facebook. I can identify advertisements or warnings which work to blame the victims of rape; I tell my brother off for buying Lynx deodorant; “the pay gap”, “the double-shift”, and “double standards” are phrases that regularly feature in…
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At some point in my quest to be a “writer”, I became certain that editors hated me. Looking back, there is little grounding for this, except having heard hoards of stories about cruel rejection letters and cliquey types who would only publish the work of those within a/the literary canon and/or their friends (which are…
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Many aspiring journalists have one common problem. How do I get my foot in the door? How do I start my career? Any journalist will tell you that starting off is hard, and it requires a lot of work. But how to begin? Freelance journalists Joanne Brooker, Andrew McMillen and Dean Saffron stress to keep…
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Are you 25 or younger and thinking about writing, but not sure where to start? Do you want to make your mark as an upcoming writer but not sure if you’ve got the right stuff ? Are you quivering in anticipation for where my obvious, closed questions are going?! This, my friends, is a post…
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Many years ago, when I was only knee-high to a grasshopper, my dad bought me my very own bookshelf. He assembled it, painted it pink and sat it against a wall in my bedroom between my cot and the mountain of stuffed toys in the corner. I was in awe of the grandiose pink entity…
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It’s almost time for this year’s This is Not Art Festival (or TiNA, as it is affectionately known), a celebration of independent, emerging and experimental art and creativity of all kinds. Held in Newcastle from Thursday September 30th to Monday October 4th, TiNa draws together a number of smaller creative arts festivals including The Crack…
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Calling all writers! lip magazine, your resident indie mag for young women invites YOU to submit to their first ever, highly exciting fiction anthology, ‘Harvest’! And to make it even more fun, we’ve themed it with the appropriately ambiguous topic of ‘One’. Whether it’s a poem to your one true love, an attempt at capturing…
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Here at lip, we’re all in favour of giving creative types the chance to share their talent with the world. Two Flat Whites is an Australian website with a similar goal. It describes itself as a “network for Fashion, Design, Music, Film, Food, Lifestyle, Community, Writing and Small Business.” The site showcases the talents of…
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