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Denise M Taylor

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writing consultant/mentor, editor, proofreader, manuscript assessor, literacy reviewer. Fiction and non-fiction.

 Melbourne, Australia
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Joined August 2012
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Writers Victoria has been defunded – but writers’ centres are ‘fundamental’ to literary culture

Writers Victoria has been defunded – but writers’ centres are ‘fundamental’ to literary culture

Authors Hannah Kent and Toni Jordan got their start through writers centre initiatives. If Victoria loses its centre, it will be the only mainland state without one.

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Jane Austen celebrated Christmas with dancing, dinner parties and dangerous games

Jane Austen celebrated Christmas with dancing, dinner parties and dangerous games

It is likely that Austen met one of her earliest romantic interests at a Christmas party.

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Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges

Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges

Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text or even writing a to-do list are manifestations of a capacity to adapt.

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Jane Austen and theory of mind: how literary fiction sharpens your ‘mindreading’ skills

Jane Austen and theory of mind: how literary fiction sharpens your ‘mindreading’ skills

Jane Austen’s interconnected webs of thought and feeling help readers to better understand other people.

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‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published theguardian.com/books/2025/s…
‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published

‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published

A chance discovery at a country house revealed the three funny – sometimes surreal – interlinked tales, written almost a decade before Woolf’s first book was published

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Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing via @crikey_news crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/mea…
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

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Très Riches Heures: Chantilly exhibition offers ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to see famed medieval manuscript - undefined theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/…
Très Riches Heures: Chantilly exhibition offers ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to see famed...

Très Riches Heures: Chantilly exhibition offers ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to see famed...

The 15th-century prayer book, commissioned by the Duc de Berry, is on display at the Condé Museum

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AI isn’t replacing student writing – but it is reshaping it

AI isn’t replacing student writing – but it is reshaping it

If AI allows students to automate routine cognitive tasks, it doesn’t mean they’re thinking less. It means their thinking is changing.

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Millennium-old monks’ manuscripts return to Ireland for exhibition theguardian.com/world/2025/a…
Millennium-old monks’ manuscripts return to Ireland for exhibition

Millennium-old monks’ manuscripts return to Ireland for exhibition

Books include religious scriptures and scribbled jokes, giving glimpse of daily lives of early medieval Irish monks

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To infinity and beyond with Caspar David Friedrich apollo-magazine.com/caspar-d…
To infinity and beyond with Caspar David Friedrich

To infinity and beyond with Caspar David Friedrich

The high priest of German Romanticism is at his best when practising a minimalism that requires maximum imaginative effort from the viewer

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Why AI can’t take over creative writing

Why AI can’t take over creative writing

As a computer scientist, I would hope that human creativity is more than regurgitating what others have written.

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To blurb or not to blurb: That is the question authors are asking as major publisher calls for their end cbc.ca/radio/day6/book-blurb…

To blurb or not to blurb: That is the question authors are asking as major publisher calls for...

Enchanting. Mysterious. Riveting. Book blurbs have been a mainstay in publishing, designed to persuade readers to pick up a book. But now, some authors and publishers are opting to forgo them.

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When attacks on art become art apollo-magazine.com/alex-mar…
When attacks on art become art

When attacks on art become art

While museums are desperate to stop climate actions involving works of art, a gallery in London has put defaced paintings front and centre, tomato soup and all

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‘It will be dire for readers’: the disappearing voices of Australia’s independent publishers theguardian.com/books/2025/j…
‘It will be dire for readers’: the disappearing voices of Australia’s independent publishers

‘It will be dire for readers’: the disappearing voices of Australia’s independent publishers

Many local award-winning authors first found a home at a small publishing house, but as yet another is subsumed by one of the ‘big five’, there are fears for the writers of the future

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Dog x-rays, art history and a ‘never say never’ attitude: the surprising toolbox of professional conservators theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Dog x-rays, art history and a ‘never say never’ attitude: the surprising toolbox of professional...

Dog x-rays, art history and a ‘never say never’ attitude: the surprising toolbox of professional...

Restoration demands a marriage of scientific and technical expertise with knowledge of art and incredible patience

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I was honored to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom yesterday in a ceremony at the White House. Thank you, President Biden.
President Biden placing a medal around the neck of Hillary Rodham Clinton

ALT President Biden placing a medal around the neck of Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Why we must save English literature degrees | Letters theguardian.com/education/20…
Why we must save English literature degrees | Letters

Why we must save English literature degrees | Letters

Letters: Cancelling degree courses on the subject is a form of cultural vandalism, says Linden West. Plus a letter from Diana Hirst

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Pilgrims’ progress? The Vatican Jubilee has frustrated Romans and tourists alike apollo-magazine.com/vatican-…
Pilgrims’ progress? The Vatican Jubilee has frustrated Romans and tourists alike

Pilgrims’ progress? The Vatican Jubilee has frustrated Romans and tourists alike

Preparations for this 700-year-old tradition, which ushers in a special year of forgiveness for Catholics, are nearing completion. Will it all be worth it?

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Writers condemn startup’s plans to publish 8,000 books next year using AI theguardian.com/books/2024/n…
Writers condemn startup’s plans to publish 8,000 books next year using AI

Writers condemn startup’s plans to publish 8,000 books next year using AI

Publisher Spines will charge authors between $1,200 and $5,000 to have their books proofread, designed and distributed with the help of artificial intelligence

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Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – what should a novel look like?

Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – what should a novel look like?

The Miles Franklin winner’s most experimental book yet opens as fiction interrupted by a narrator who starts picking apart her life and feelings about writing

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