Sydney School of Arts and Humanities

A recent prompt for an SSOA Writing of the Week exercise came from an Indian novel, Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph (Fourth Estate 2010), about a Mumbai publ...

Wil Roach Etiquette - A handshake, hug, kiss or air-kiss? Definitely NO! A smile, wave or wink? Sure! How to meet & greet ... I love the possible inclusivene...

So much success in life is down to the degree and quality of emotion you bring to a task or project, and how you harness that emotion. No less for writing th...

Don't call me crazy unless you're my friend Jasmine Monk For as long as I can remember I’ve been driven to the edge for reasons unknown. The other week I was...

Our latest collection of stories by SSOA writers - titled Short Stories Sydney School of Arts - is now available online - from Amazon & Apple, Booktopia & Bo...

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President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, has a strong message for people who are excusing President Trump's recent racism: "I had fully...

Australians are notoriously agnostic, if not outright atheistic. The stats from the most recent census in 2016 show that almost one third of Australians desc...

SWEET RAIN Gerdette Rooney Sweet rain is falling heavily - and I emigrated to escape it! I would never have called it sweet. In Ireland it was prevalent day ...

Gerdette Rooney As a native of Ireland, I first moved into the inner west of Sydney in January 1988, just in time for the Bicentenary Celebrations. A long pa...

AN SSOA WRITING EXERCISE Holding back details of character is a technique often used in the crime genre – but what details are essential to effective charact...

Not an easy task, you might say. But the owners of what is a global business, nothing more, can easily make the honest decision that Trump is using the servi...

The stories of suffering and loss are almost overwhelming ... BEFORE THE FIRE AFTER THE FIRE More than 150,000 evacuations and almost 1500 homes lost so far ...

The last writing prompt for the year from Sydney School of Arts & Humanities (SSOA) - responses from writing group members Cat Davey, Gerdette Rooney and Mat...

by Gerdette Rooney Brexit has been dominating the airwaves for the past three years and talk of hard and soft borders bandied about in a willy-nilly fashion....

When Nymboida in northern NSW was severely hit by bushfires last month, with homes blasted by the ferocity of flames and residents reduced to scraping throug...

After seven years in Papua New Guinea, at last Behrouz Boochani is free from the torment he has suffered under Australia’s abusive offshore immigration deten...

Five hundred grams of tiny toes and fingers, his chest rising every few seconds, validating the fleeting blossom of his arrival. Three months early. Fragile....

The Part of Me that is Always There It is what defines me, the thing that another recognises when I walk into the room. The same thing that I recognise in ot...

It might be argued that all stories - whatever the genre - follow a similar pathway, an opening up of an event or series of incidents between characters, who...