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One last event for the year!
Dec 8, 2025 • Kate Mildenhall
Two weeks to go...
On all the events & the feels pre-THE HIDING PLACE release
Oct 13, 2025 • Kate Mildenhall
How to build a forest
on future-thinking & some stillness
Sep 9, 2025 • Kate Mildenhall
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Deep Dive: On disappointment
Apr 9, 2024 • Kate Mildenhall
How to navigate a structural edit
Mar 13, 2025 • Kate Mildenhall
Deep Dive: nourishing creative habits
Feb 13, 2024 • Kate Mildenhall
How To Ride A Rip
Feb 4, 2025 • Kate Mildenhall
Ten things I learned about book tours
Nov 28, 2023 • Kate Mildenhall
Something's coming...
Jun 18, 2025 • Kate Mildenhall
Something's coming...
Back in March 2017 I was lucky to have a two week residency at Varuna to work on my second novel The Mother Fault. I was, I remember, still reeling from…
Jun 18, 2025 • Kate Mildenhall
How to navigate a structural edit
and remembering why I write
Mar 13, 2025 • Kate Mildenhall
How To Ride A Rip
(and other lessons learned this summer)
Feb 4, 2025 • Kate Mildenhall
A little peace
for all of us x
Dec 17, 2024 • Kate Mildenhall
Grandmama wouldn't want a fuss
but here's an invitation to come celebrate all the same x
Sep 29, 2024 • Kate Mildenhall
Collecting Cowries
And finding pleasure in the work
Aug 6, 2024 • Kate Mildenhall
On learning (again) to guard writing time
My little yellow suitcase is packed again; tonight I’m flying to Darwin for the NT Writers Festival, to warmth (damn Melbourne winters!), to read rivers…
Jun 25, 2024 • Kate Mildenhall
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Voracious
Emily Gale
Bijoux, From Author Natasha Lester
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Natasha Lester
The Sit Spot
The Sit Spot
Maggie Mackellar

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