As we continue with our celebrations of motherhood this May, this week Lauren asks: what it is that our mothers bequeath to us?

Is mothering always a slow tide shifting underneath you?

Lauren interviews the fantastically talented winners of the Curious Playwright Competition for women.

Lauren considers the need for us to interrogate our mythology and legends, especially those that define national identity.

In the last part of the Sensory Landscapes series, Lauren examines how writers can use animals in the landscape as inspiration.

In this post, Lauren examines how we can use memory and contrast in our writing to gain greater insight into landscape and ourselves.

In Part Two of the series, Lauren explores how we can use elements of weather as ways in which to open up new perspectives in our writing.

Two recent moments in my life have been bothering me lately...

In Part One of this series, Lauren explores seasonality and the ways that an intimate knowledge of the land can improve our writing.

In March, Lauren presents a range of short writing exercises designed to help you get motivated to write! The first focus is atomic stories.

The most exciting Australian writing competitions in the first half of the year.

The third post in a series to help you to invigorate your writing practice in 2022!

The second instalment of 22 Ways to Improve your Writing in 2022, writing advice to help you make the most of your writing in 2022.

Need help setting your New Year's Resolution? Why not set one to improve your writing? Lauren talks us through how.

With a focus on Place on the Mona Blog this month, Fiction Editor Lauren reviews one of her favourite book releases of 2021, Flock.

She cursed herself for wearing the tired apron she had found amongst the meagre belongings of her mother-in-law.

I believe in the vision of an abundant, vibrant, inclusive and sustainable way of life.

These workshops were generously sponsored by the Foundation for Regional and Rural Renewal. As many of our followers will know, in...

“Young people feel like they don’t have their voices heard so having a young person to represent them I think is a good start.”

Another talented Young Mona, Melina, aged 15, shares with us two poems she has written on unrequited love, longing and boys who meet...