This week's writing prompt for SSOA emerging writers gets right to the nitty gritty. Just how intelligent is intelligence gathering for a...

I’m lucky enough to live in a part of New South Wales where I haven’t been affected by natural disasters like floods and bushfires. But...

'I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.' ― Charles Chaplin The storm had passed, and the eucalyptus forest at...

With personal security still unresolved after a certain Australian-Singaporean telco allowed a hacker to ransom millions of customers'...

Members of Sydney School of Arts & Humanities writers' groups were this week given the task of writing a response to the above prompt,...

Kevin opened his bedroom window to find the large moving truck parked outside. The truck's back doors were open and one of the movers...

Such a sad feeling at news of the death of the great English novelist Hilary Mantel. I can only agree with J K Rowling's pithy response:...

This Sydney School of Arts & Humanities post was republished on John Menadue's ' 'Pearls & Irritations' - https://johnmenadue.com/long-li...

I have heard some lament that the movement of recognition and action for climate change is like a religion. Yet we all seem to like a...

Writing overthinking ... I was thinking about what to write for this prompt, but then … Author: Matt Jackson Overthinking ... Sometimes...

It is 2 am. Emerging-writer-Robert lies awake, staring at the ceiling. He knows it’s pointless to lie there tossing and turning. He’s...

A meditation swirls around my mind, or my mind circles a meditation - I'm not entirely sure which. What I do know is that if I find a...

‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.’...

Who needs grammar? Grammar is boring to learn but adds vitality and clarity to writing.

Quality decorative art is that which makes its viewers believe there is meaning beyond its decorative nature. It must tell a story that...

This week's writing prompt for Sydney School of Arts' members provoked stories from real life and also fictional pieces. Let's begin with...

No, not cops and robbers, a crime thriller, nor a gangster revenge story. This tale by Rosana Wayand is a sensitive New Age action story...

Water water everywhere – so much rain already and so much more to come. The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast that our current...

Around 600 Ukrainian refugees have made their way to NSW so far, most of them women and children. They've been welcomed with an...

It's claimed that in war, truth is the first casualty. In a plot twist of disappointing proportions, this is a massive propagandist lie....