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My Year In Lists
As is traditional, I wanted to send out an end-of-year round up of everything that I loved reading and watching and listening to in 2025.
Dec 30, 2025 • Madeleine Watts
Baby Pictures
A few months ago, Westerly Magazine approached me about writing something for a special edition reflecting on archives.
Dec 12, 2025 • Madeleine Watts
Helen Garner and the In-between Space
For the last five days, I’ve been in Perth, attending a symposium at the University of Western Australia on the work of Helen Garner.
Jul 30, 2025 • Madeleine Watts
Revisiting Stravinsky's Lunch
Thinking about women artists and having children
Jul 7, 2025 • Madeleine Watts
Elegy, Southwest, and its forebears
In just a little over a month’s time, my second novel, Elegy, Southwest, will be out.
Jan 16, 2025 • Madeleine Watts
Who are epigraphs for?
So what are epigraphs for? If people like me are skipping over them, why are they there? Why do writers keep including them, why do publishers keep…
Aug 8, 2024 • Madeleine Watts
Pictures on the Wall
It's an odd season, this.
Sep 21, 2023 • Madeleine Watts
A return
It’s early summer, but today is the first rainy day in I don’t know how long, and I’m meant to have a German lesson this afternoon but I can’t bear to…
Jun 16, 2023 • Madeleine Watts
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