Three years in a row! Three different judges. Three separate wins of ‘first place’. Hat trick! I couldn’t believe it earlier today when, at a meeting of Manly’s Fellowship of Australian Writers, acting President Beatrice Yell read out the results for their 2012 Short Story Competition and I realised I’d…
Welcome to Part 2 of my blog series asking: what’s it like being a debut novelist? I love writing, publishing, and winning competitions with all my short stories… Still when I go to sleep at night, I dream about the day my novels will be read by, you know, readers…
I want to be a debut novelist! Who doesn’t? I love writing, publishing, and winning competitions with all my short stories… Still when I go to sleep at night, I dream about the day my novels will be read by, you know, readers – and not just sat on my…
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve just won first place in the 2012 Oberon Writing Competition with my short story A Knight Answers. As the premiere adult writing competition of the Blue Mountains, the Oberon Writing Competition is one to aspire to win. So my jaw dropped when Anne Russell,…
Okay everyone… I know it’s very unlike me to post twice in a day, but this one’s important… Earlier this week, I was thrilled to be interviewed on the radio about my writing, and I’ve just been told that the interview will now be broadcast this Sunday. Squee! So if…
So, I suppose some of you are wondering why I’ve been asking writers this week: in how many fiction categories do you write? Well, I had a theory I wanted to explore… about genre. Now, don’t roll your eyes. Yes, ‘genre’ is a topic that’s so often debated these days…
What’s up world? Fantasy is the biggest-selling form of fiction. Yet the When Genres Attack team at Shearer’s Bookshop, Leichhardt, had to cancel their speculative fiction panel this week due to lack of interest? What the?
