Portrait of Sophie Quick

Sophie Quick

Sophie Quick is the Wheeler Centre's Senior Writer/Editor.

News

Close to Home: Three perspectives on housing in Melbourne

‘Who’, ‘What’, ‘When’… Interrogative Words Rated out of Ten

Working with Words: Susan Butler

Meet the Hot Desk Fellows: second round for 2015

Quick Draw: How boring is ‘Bleak House’?

Working with Words: Robbie Arnott

Quick Draw: Who first wrote ‘It was a dark and stormy night?'

Let’s Hear it for Bookshops

Working with Words: Shirley Stott Despoja

Working with Words: Patrick Witton

Quick Draw: Does Dorothy Parker’s epitaph really read, ‘Excuse my dust’?

Quick Draw: What did Guy de Maupassant use as a paperweight?

Notes

Beyond Bars: two perspectives

We Need a Song: Tim Finn on musicals, muses and Madeleine St John

Members Only: on politicians who write fiction

Take it as Read

The Private Investigator: ‘the truth is we drive old cars and don’t have moustaches’

The Reality TV Casting Producer: ‘there are some people who really are just motivated by the abstract idea of winning'

The Recycling Collector: ‘Some loads are so bad, and so mixed up, that they can’t be sorted … It becomes landfill'

The Theatre Technician: ‘magicians fool others by fooling themselves’

The Hair and Make-up Artist: ‘It all changed with HD'

The Financial Planner: ‘if I wanted to be a proper financial adviser, I would not work for a bank'