by Asha Rajan | Mar 19, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
One is the loneliest number This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about community and how to get more involved with local (to me) writing groups. Writing can be a woefully lonely business, or at least a woefully alone business. It can feel like you’re...
by Asha Rajan | Feb 5, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Lockdown, fires, and editing, oh my! It’s Day Two of a (currently) five-day lockdown where I live. It’s the middle of Summer, there’s a familiar but disconcerting smell of burning eucalyptus in the air, the sky’s a deeply worrying shade of...
by Asha Rajan | Dec 18, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Tune in I took myself out for a coffee yesterday. I didn’t take a book, I didn’t check my social media accounts on my phone, I didn’t take a notebook and pen. I had no distractions, no camouflage. In the midst of a busy coffeeshop, filled with cool...
by Asha Rajan | Oct 31, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Are you all sugared up on Halloween candy? Are houses in your street all decked out in spider webs and spooky finery? It’s not a big celebration in Australia, and I really miss it. I miss the tiny children who’d come to the door, dressed as a superhero or...
by Asha Rajan | Oct 3, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Same but different The last few weeks have felt especially hectic and exhausting to me. Or perhaps it’s just the accumulated weight of watching the world literally and figuratively burn, combined with the weird survivor’s guilt of living in a place where...
by Asha Rajan | Sep 5, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Spring is springing September’s here and it’s the beginning of Spring in my part of the world! I love this time of year; the days are warmer, the nights are still cool, there’s enough rain to keep everything watered, but not so much that it feels...
