In among the slew of sequels and prequels and endless spinoffs of already exhausted franchises, this year also promises its fair share of the latest…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeApril 18, 2014
Why write horror stories? Why write something that is designed to induce fear? Designed to scare? Designed to shock and upset and haunt and terrify?…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeApril 18, 2014
In a recent article published in the New York Times, authors Mohsin Hamid and Adam Kirsch were asked if the new ‘golden age’ of TV shows were…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeApril 18, 2014
After looking back last week at the tools and teaching on writing that I received at university, I was struck at how much of the following years…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeMarch 26, 2014
Something strange always seems to happen in David Lynch’s films. Ever since the first drones of white noise crept into our ears and the first…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeMarch 26, 2014
I. What is the value of a creative writing course? Mine was completed over three years, with an additional honours year for a creative writing…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeMarch 26, 2014
On Wednesday night, ABC’s show At The Movies decided to not present a televised review of Greg McLean’s locally produced sequel to his 2005 film Wolf Creek. That…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeMarch 1, 2014
Recently, there has been a flurry of scandalous debate about a report and analysis into the changing world of publishing by Wool author Hugh Howey. Howey’s exceedingly detailed…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeMarch 1, 2014
A discussion yesterday about the practice of editing on paper against editing electronically branched off into an interesting tangent: just how attached are we to…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeFebruary 16, 2014