https://www.will-cox.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-04-09 https://www.will-cox.com/home daily 1.0 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/0d8a5e93-e109-48ce-bd8f-a4abdede0067/ezgif-2-37b8ee5691.gif https://www.will-cox.com/hyacinth daily 0.75 2025-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/f179eabf-b1ad-4e24-9df8-069931f309e1/9780994225160_cov.jpg https://www.will-cox.com/bio daily 0.75 2026-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/1586402663522-9BTC15RU9VS0X4RBPQ4Y/526-Will-Cox-130-Edit-LR.jpg Bio Will Cox is a lutruwita-born, Naarm-based writer of fiction and non-fiction. Over the years he’s been an arts writer for The Age, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, The Lifted Brow and others, and he can be heard reviewing films on RRR’s Primal Screen. He was the arts editor at Broadsheet for four, possibly five years. On top of this he writes and edits for arts festivals, airlines and archaeologists, and ghost-writes here and there. His novella Hyacinth (2023) is a weird little cult hit, and his short fiction and poetry has been published in New Australian Fiction, Island, Verge, Visible Ink, Slow Canoe and others. https://www.will-cox.com/non-fiction daily 0.75 2025-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/50c718af-e12e-4e88-a579-807716eceef8/Kiselev_Death_of_Hyacinth.jpg Non-fiction and journalism - The Post-Nostalgic World of Hyacinth Bucket // The Victorian Writer On nostalgia, lost pasts, and Keeping Up Appearances, Originally published in The Victorian Writer, December 2023—February 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/edc98faa-19dc-4f22-af35-7612f25dbf6c/Screenshot+2025-07-20+at+4.42.25%E2%80%AFpm.png Non-fiction and journalism - In defence of Step Brothers: the platonic ideal of Obama-era comedy // The Guardian Watching Will Ferrell and John C Reilly as a pair of large adult sons feels like witnessing the dying embers of the gen X sensibility – before the world got cruel and idiots took over. The Guardian, 15 July 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/c49c1c15-8686-42ae-a8fd-0a0a8725e167/Screenshot+2025-07-20+at+4.40.29%E2%80%AFpm.png Non-fiction and journalism - These works by Sidney Nolan have never been displayed. Now they’re heading to Melbourne // The Age In 1962, the artist visited Auschwitz. The paintings he created afterwards have been brought together in a new exhibition. The Age, April 29, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/ddd83779-6007-4a63-ab44-27217d32cb4a/Screenshot+2025-07-20+at+4.36.20%E2%80%AFpm.png Non-fiction and journalism - This cult musician ‘disappeared’ for 15 years. Then the internet stepped in // The Age After years of busking and then slipping into anonymity, The Space Lady is back – and she is heading to Australia. The Age, January 2, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/cfff0d68-2598-4d4d-9052-98e276348a93/Screenshot+2025-07-20+at+4.33.59%E2%80%AFpm.png Non-fiction and journalism - ‘This is for all Australians’: Invaluable Aboriginal cultural collection reunited // The Age At a time when petty theft and grave robbery were rife in anthropology, Donald Thomson was distinctly respectful. His UNESCO inscribed collection is the result. The Age, December 21, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/9f020c8e-d63e-4cd0-92b1-424a97197870/Screenshot+2025-07-20+at+4.25.20%E2%80%AFpm.png Non-fiction and journalism - This surreal work asks: Can you become a French actor without speaking French? // The Age “Language is unstable. It’s just a fiction.” In her new work, Apologia, writer and performer Nicola Gunn is taking on the barriers language puts between us. The Age, August 8, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/aea13442-2b54-4245-b163-393ade63be84/Screenshot+2025-07-20+at+4.17.50%E2%80%AFpm.png Non-fiction and journalism - Everyone feared this festival would implode, but there’s Alice Cooper waving a boa constrictor on stage // The Age Despite the rough lead-up and dropping half of its acts, Pandemonium music festival didn’t live up to its name – and was ultimately a pretty good time. The Age, April 21, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/324d078f-3e62-46e9-b79d-1259c7b8189f/Screenshot+2025-07-20+at+4.11.28%E2%80%AFpm.png Non-fiction and journalism - The forgotten follow-up to Romper Stomper that is finally getting its moment in the sun // The Age “We got the last use of old-time Melbourne.” Newly remastered, 1995’s Metal Skin offers up a wild story of drag racing, sex and satanism in the western suburbs. The Age, April 19, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/a5f5a0ab-24a8-4840-8cd6-c2b261f6f926/Screenshot+2025-07-20+at+4.04.25%E2%80%AFpm.png Non-fiction and journalism - ‘I think you need to see this’: Celebrities are not the only victims of deepfake porn // The Age As AI technology improves and fact melts into fiction, this documentary looks at the very real issue of deepfake pornography – and how the law is not keeping up. The Age, February 29, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/ccf82073-26a5-4e04-8536-5df233c8c3a8/Screenshot+2024-08-05+at+5.08.06%E2%80%AFpm.jpg Non-fiction and journalism - Beyond the Wall: ‘The Zone of Interest’, Ambient Sound, and the Savagery of Politeness On Johnnie Burn’s remarkable sound design for Jonathan Glazer’s film and the accrual of noise in the real world. Rough Cut, 10 April 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/92d6ec34-7c11-4d31-b30c-bab3a1d0ee9f/Screen+Shot+2023-12-12+at+3.30.44+pm.png Non-fiction and journalism - Robots, memory and matter at the NGV A preview of the NGV’s Triennial. The Age, 1 December 2023. Photographer: Tim Carrafa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/58e02e4d-988c-4be6-836c-60aad953d64b/Screen+Shot+2023-12-12+at+3.26.01+pm.png Non-fiction and journalism - “Boom, bass, shake-shakes the room”: Working with the Melbourne Town Hall organ A feature for The Age on a dissonant, dense and sonically challenging album built from electronic sound, field recordings of construction sites … and the huge, gothic bellow of the Town Hall grand organ. 6 November 2023. Photographer: Eddie Jim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/e5e65354-4045-416e-983a-15adfbb6026d/Screen+Shot+2023-12-12+at+2.56.36+pm.png Non-fiction and journalism - “Who likes to listen to the old shit?” Stadium rock reviews for The Age A series of reviews of Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Smashing Pumpkins and others across 2023. Photographer: Richard Clifford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/610068c2-e6e1-4daa-8096-8f137902f3e7/IMG_8449.JPG Non-fiction and journalism - Broadsheet RISING Special Edition 2022 I wrote four pieces for Broadsheet’s RISING special. Available in cafes and bars across Melbourne. Photographer: Jeremy Orr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/1627383219997-JFGJ7FZABD371XK7KG46/adbcf49af48258cc88b7c19c15ab138a.jpg Non-fiction and journalism - Studio Visit: Surrealism Meets Hyperrealism With Celebrated Artist Patricia Piccinini Originally published in Broadsheet, 25 May 2021 Photographer: Charlie Hawks. See link for more details. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d9e5ca9315d72b549c408/1627382807501-X26M9LQDHVVUIGR6V4TL/666cd7dcb312fac179b4419b9f9c7d51.jpg Non-fiction and journalism - On Flow State: A sonic bathing experience at Melbourne’s Rising Festival Originally published in Broadsheet, 23 April 2021 Photographer: Sam Bisso. 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