Rabbit Hole is about recovering creativity. Read essays, interviews, reviews on the art of writing, illustrating, film and more.
More difficult than knowing where to begin is knowing when to stop. Pieces of writing we’re working on. Bad relationships. Eating. But when it comes to finding the best ending for a creative work, the perfect solution might be right under our noses.
Read MoreCan’t afford an expensive holiday overseas? Take some advice from an eighteen century writer, soldier and artist under house arrest and go on a magical sight-seeing tour of your very own home.
Read MoreFiona Burrows makes a compelling case for depth and complexity in children’s literature.
Read MoreSanna Peden talks about being a recovering academic and returning to her first loves: performing and the spoken word.
Read MorePlay is essential to creativity. This issue is about remembering how to do it.
Read MoreThe day the Japanese author Haruki Murakami discovered he wanted to be a writer and how, later, he found his voice.
Read MoreAll about having time to play, and making stuff for yourself first before showing others.
Read MoreAn online zine about Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick's version of The Shining.
Read MoreA short while back past Rabbit Hole contributor Matt Roberts and I dared a friend of ours to make something out of a story he told us about Dustin Hoffman—and he did!
Read MoreReading Charles Bukowski’s work confirms my sneaking suspicion that art is not as hard as I make it.
Read MoreI’ve got an apocalypse worth of unfinished projects. But rather than keeping hold of them, I’m wondering if I need to mourn them a little and then put them, and me, out of our misery.
Read MoreA super short piece about super short pieces, including the shortest novel ever written (supposedly).
Read MoreIn this week’s double issue, my good friend Matt Roberts becomes Rabbit Hole’s second guest contributor.
Read MoreFor those of you with a fetish for stationery.
Read MoreAbout Maurice Sendak, Edgar Allen Poe and, of course, chicken hypnosis. (Sort of.)
Read MoreAfter twenty-four issues, I thought I should figure out exactly why I’m doing this.
Read MoreI woke up one morning and this crazy title came to me. Surprisingly, it turned out to be true.
Read MoreWhy does your life suck sometimes? This Rabbit Hole looks to my Dad and one of the most pessimistic people in Western philosophy for answers.
Read MoreTo be creative every day, you need to find things that are simple, fun and quick.
Read MoreThis year, rather than let other pressures dictate how I spend my time, I thought I’d try an experiment. Well, not one—365 of them.
Read MoreRecently, I was looking for something about reading to kids, and I happened across an educational theorist from New Zealand with some really great ideas about teaching and learning, which made a few things fall into place about being a parent too.
Lia McKnight is a Perth-based artist who seamlessly moves between drawing, textiles, installation and sculpture. McKnight’s beautifully strange, yet eerily familiar works confuse the boundaries between the ‘natural’ and the ‘personal’—an idea that she and eleven other artists explore in a new group show at the Fremantle Arts Centre.
Mum’s recurring complaint is that dad never finishes anything. There’s a half-built brick barbecue at the end of the garden that in twenty years has never seen a hotplate, let alone a sausage or steak. It was the same too with the model train layout he built for me as a kid, which never sported truck nor track. But I didn’t realise till now that not finishing things could be a good thing, a helpful trick to keep your creativity on track.
More difficult than knowing where to begin is knowing when to stop. Pieces of writing we’re working on. Bad relationships. Eating. But when it comes to finding the best ending for a creative work, the perfect solution might be right under our noses.
Can’t afford an expensive holiday overseas? Take some advice from an eighteen century writer, soldier and artist under house arrest and go on a magical sight-seeing tour of your very own home.
To be an artist, constantly risking your self-esteem by putting things out there in the world, requires a certain level of masochism. But how can that masochism be harnessed for good?
Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt developed a series of cards to help artists break through their creative blocks and take risks in their work.
We can only hope that the resurgence of the extreme right in America inspires an equally strong counterculture. In the era of Trump, only punk can save us now.
Author H.G. Wells had some great advice for writers, which is equally good advice for teachers too.
Make Your Own Rabbit Hole is about recovering creativity. Read essays, interviews, reviews and much more on writing, art, film and all things creative.
Painter Tracey Read talks about spending four weeks painting and drawing her way around Italy.