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November 20, 2016. As the aftershocks of the Alt-Right quake continue to rock the Western World, there’s been much browbeating about who to blame for it. Quick out of the finger-pointing blocks has been the assertion that ‘identity politics’ is the culprit here. How could we have been so blind! But more powerful than the obvious is the invisible: the histories each of us carry behind our eyes. Generational racism and dispossession, intimate struggles with sexuality, memories that flicker with violenc...

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October 1, 2016. LOVE IN A TEACUP. I’ve never gathered much in the way of stuff around me. Nice roof over head, nice frocks and nice bed linen, what more does one need? Apart from a laptop, phone, a stupid number of books, novelty socks and decorative pillows Ahem. My husband thinks this is a pathological compulsion, and worries that one day he’ll come home and I’ll have given away the cats, the chooks and all the family photographs. Not true! Munching Arnott’s Lemon Crisp biscuits, I’d imagine my grown-...

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Legend has it that if you don’t want to suffer misfortune at the hands of your jewellery, then it’s probably wise not to acquire it by wrongful means. Gems of exceptional beauty have gathered wild tales of theft and retribution about them over the centuries, curses no doubt fabricated to increase their allure, and their value. When she plunged to the icy depths at least in the movie. This pearl sits at the centre of my latest novel,. As a symbol of greed and desire, but apart from destroying a ship and a...

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Writers are fancy gamblers, addicts suffering from collections of random personality disorders. At least I am. Every novel I write, and I’ve written eight (six in the world and two on the way), I tell myself I won’t make myself ill this time. But each time I do. There are times when I disconnect from my family, friends, colleagues; times when terrifying doubt causes me to disconnect from everything but the tiny light-tunnel of story. All this, but I can’t stop. We spent the rest of the day discussing tha...

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THE GLAMOROUS LIFE OF AN HISTORICAL FICTIONEER. Crime writers might book themselves in for autopsies, thriller writers might throw themselves out of planes, while romance writers might rather fly themselves to Paris, but never let it be said that historical fictioneers don’t love a research challenge, too. I spent almost two full days this week researching the whereabouts of a nineteenth century pub. Sober. Tour Taking a walk through the bush to view the nearby falls, he looked out across the Jamison Val...

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August | 2016 | Kim Kelly

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Month: August, 2016. August 27, 2016. Wattle never blooms, it bursts: tiny needles of sunshine laughing at the last days of winter. I’ve been taking hundreds of photographs of them lately, hoping to capture their laughter, boldest in the late-afternoon sun. My hands blue-cold around the camera, my gumboots slurping along tracks that have turned to ribbons of mud in the biblical quantities of rain we’ve enjoyed since June. There was no celebration of. Yes, ten years on, I can finally celebrate. I will dan...

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Kim Kelly

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LOVE IN A TEACUP. I’ve never gathered much in the way of stuff around me. Nice roof over head, nice frocks and nice bed linen, what more does one need? Apart from a laptop, phone, a stupid number of books, novelty socks and decorative pillows Ahem. My husband thinks this is a pathological compulsion, and worries that one day he’ll come home and I’ll have given away the cats, the chooks and all the family photographs. Not true! Munching Arnott’s Lemon Crisp biscuits, I’d imagine my grown-up life, all the ...

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Kim Kelly

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As the aftershocks of the Alt-Right quake continue to rock the Western World, there’s been much browbeating about who to blame for it. Quick out of the finger-pointing blocks has been the assertion that ‘identity politics’ is the culprit here. How could we have been so blind! But more powerful than the obvious is the invisible: the histories each of us carry behind our eyes. Generational racism and dispossession, intimate struggles with sexuality, memories that flicker with violence and fear. The...Of co...

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November | 2016 | Kim Kelly

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Month: November, 2016. November 20, 2016. As the aftershocks of the Alt-Right quake continue to rock the Western World, there’s been much browbeating about who to blame for it. Quick out of the finger-pointing blocks has been the assertion that ‘identity politics’ is the culprit here. How could we have been so blind! But more powerful than the obvious is the invisible: the histories each of us carry behind our eyes. Generational racism and dispossession, intimate struggles with sexuality, memories th...