How to submit your work to literary magazines
Denise O’Hagan, editor of the An Astráil column at The Blue Nib, explains what you need to consider when submitting to literary journals. This article was originally posted on The…
Denise O’Hagan interviews poet Anthony Lawrence
Anthony Lawrence has published fifteen books of poems and a novel. His most recent collection, Headwaters, won the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. Simple Things, a new book…
Denise O’Hagan interviews poet Peter Bakowski
Born premature, with a hole in the heart, on 15 October 1954, to Polish-German, delicatessen-running parents in Melbourne, Australia, Peter Bakowski fell in love with the map of the world…
Denise O’Hagan interviews British eco-poet Helen Moore
Helen Moore is an award-winning British ecopoet and socially engaged artist currently based in Sydney. She has published three poetry collections, Hedge Fund and Other Living Margins(Shearsman Books, 2012), ECOZOA…
Where does poetic inspiration come from?
There seem to be no deals you can make with poetry to entice it out of its lair. A poem, actually any writing, is always a private thing, and that…
How to promote your book
First published in The Blue Nib ‘Writing a book without promoting it is like waving to someone in a dark room. You know what you have done but nobody else…
Six questions for …
Denise O’Hagan, Poetry Editor, Australia and NZ, The Blue Nib Literary Magazine The Blue Nib Literary Magazine publishes poetry, fiction/nonfiction of 750-3,000 words and book reviews. The original interview can…
Poetry Editor, Australia & New Zealand, for The Blue Nib
Denise O’Hagan has a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Italian and an MA in Bibliography and Textual Criticism. She comes to us as an experienced editor, having worked for…
Finding objectivity in a personal editor-author relationship
WordMothers Guest Post by Denise O’Hagan WordMothers is dedicated to supporting women writers and showcasing women’s work in the literary arts worldwide. The original interview can be found here. My…
An Interview with Denise O’Hagan
Australian Women Writers Challenge: Sunday Spotlight by Elizabeth Lhuede, 8 October 2017 Joan O’Hagan (1926−2014) published four crime novels during her lifetime and was working on a fifth novel –…
