What the program stated:How do we go about representing other people in our writing? If Joan Didion’s claim “Writers are always selling somebody out,” is true, is there any way to soften the blow? In this panel a fiction […]
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What the program said:Why are so many young writers caught up with being so serious? These writers talk about navigating the world of seriousness in literary publishing, while making people laff it up. Featuring Michelle Law, Zoe Norton Lodge […]
What the program stated:What’s the best way to capture the essence of a voice? Dialogue, verbatim techniques and interviewing skills will be explored, as these writers do what they do best: talk and listen. Featuring Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Jennifer […]
Today was the first day of the Emerging Writers Festival National Conference and every year there are five writers that are ambassadors who are there too support the emerging writers and be there as a resource. The first event […]
I was once asked where do I get all my ideas from? Why do all these ‘funny’ experiences happen to me and not them? How can I have all these jokes just come out of me like a verbal […]
As a comedian we all know that there are those types of gigs that we love and those we hate. We get compliments all the time; constructive criticism and the compliments that make you remember why you are doing […]
After getting a Kindle Touch last week and falling in love with it I became more aware of what ‘public domain’ means in the way of eBooks. Being a librarian I guess I should already know about this – […]
On Friday 13th January 2012 I said a final goodbye to a show that without, I would not be the woman I am today. For those of you who are not Australian, Spicks and Specks was our version of UK’s Never […]
Even as I start to write this I am shaking. I am shaking with happiness and for the last 2 days have not been able to wipe the smile off my face. On Sunday I filmed the fanile for […]
About a few weeks ago now I went through Matt Smith’s back catalogue. This included his tele-movie; Christopher And His Kind, in which he plays Christopher Isherwood, a gay writer who lives in Berlin before Hitler came to power […]