25 books from short stories to memoirs to fiction inspired by the Indigenous experience. Plus books for younger people and non-fiction works about the traumatic effects of colonialism.

Explore the magic of photographs for your imagination and the transformative potential of visual prompts.

Are you holding on to fears about your creativity and writing? Try the three-point plan by Beth Pickens to help move forward.

Photographs from an old Kodak instamatic camera stir up memories and stories from the 1980s.

Your family photos are mini-portals in time pushing you forwards, backward and sideways in your mind.

A poem for you plus finding meaningful words to help you reach your creative writing goals.

Do you write in your books? Read this guide on how making notes, marginalia and a post-it note system could help you with your creative writing.

Take some time to search deep into the shadows of your story. It’s the shadows that shape the light of your writing. Find the way here.

Write a story about the colour blue. How do you experience the colour blue? How might one of characters?

Photographs from your family archive are a great way to access a memory or discover a story. To make the story feel real get right into all the details.

A story for you, written early one morning when jet lag had me in its grip.

My grandmother gave me this book, a book showing Libya, the country of my birth, before the revolution of 1969.

The illustrations and stories in Dean’s Gift Book of Fairy Tales fired my imagination with stories of witches, princesses and long-lost children. Read more here.

Write about the colour yellow or incorporate yellow into a story or simply write from the picture above.