Jakob Ryce

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  • Why Dystopia Belongs to the Young

    Young Adult fiction, inherited systems, and the moment we begin to see the machinery It has been nearly ten years since I last wrote seriously about Young Adult fiction. Back in 2017, while completing my literature degree, I wrote an essay called The Mirror of Young Adult Fiction. At the time, I was interested in…

  • After So Much Instability, the Stories Survived. So Have I

    The last few years have been some of the hardest of my life. I never imagined that midlife could become quite this precarious. After the pandemic, Melbourne was hit by a brutal rental crisis. Rents climbed dramatically, in some cases by 40 percent or more, and like many Australians, I was caught in it. I…

  • The Pen vs. the Algorithm

    An article that I hope many writers can relate to. How do we navigate these emerging AI technologies as they become more and more convincing?

  • The Paradox of Antidepressants: A Writer’s Struggle

    What do we do when feeling positive becomes the mundane? In the midst of a global pandemic, mental health became an increasingly prominent concern for many individuals. As the world grappled with uncertainty and isolation, the use of antidepressants surged as a means to cope with unprecedented challenges. For me, like countless others, the decision…

  • The Banyan Review

    Two of my poems were recently published in the 2021 Fall issue of The Banyan Review. The Banyan Review is an online, international journal promoting poetry, art, and the natural world. They publish four issues annually, and feature poets, artists, thinkers, and essayists. It’s always a pleasure to have my work included in publications that…

  • A Perfect Orbit Out Now

    I am happy to announce that I just launched my first book of poetry on Amazon. It’s a very personal collection, spanning many years and many memories. The book description … Jakob Ryce’s first book of poetry is a collection divided into two sections, Virtue and Falling. There are moments of childlike innocence, growth and…

  • We Are Going – Analysis

    Recently my mind has been on “the land” and what that means to us in today’s age. With that in mind, I decided to publish an analysis I wrote on Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s 1964 poem ‘We Are Going.’ I actually wrote this as part of my literature degree and it was eventually used as an example…

  • Shaping the Land

    My poem ‘Shaping the Land’ was recently published in The Fourth River. It is one of many eco poems I’ve been working on over the past year, with a collection in the works. It’s fierce, unapologetic and its message is clear.  Ecological concerns have always been there for me. Growing up in Australia I’ve witnessed countless environmental…

  • How to Focus on One Writing Project at a Time

    Procrastination can manifest in many forms Remember the story of the The Boy Who Cried Wolf? It’s one of Aesop’s Fables in which a lonely boy who is tending his sheep repeatedly cries “Wolf!” to seek attention. The first time his cries of alarm are heard, the villagers arrive. The second time it works again, yet…

  • How I Survived 2020, I Wrote Poetry

    Sometimes we need to just write for ourselves You would think that during such apocalyptic times that the best thing a writer can do is, well… write about it, but that is not always the case. We all felt the 2020 blues, we are still feeling it. The pandemic and the daily Covid-19 death tolls…