Critical examination of bookish events, news and debate.
Have you ever wondered how we’re going to properly navigate this new ocularcentric culture of ours, where the semiotic landscape is dominated by the visual? What is the future of language when it’s becoming so entwined with such plural literacies? Well, Jessica Frawley, a researcher in the UTS Centre for…
For anyone who doesn’t know, the Ditmar Awards celebrate achievements by Australians in speculative fiction writing. Nominations for the awards are currently open and can be made by anyone who has been to a recent speculative fiction convention / event OR is otherwise active in the speculative fiction world as…
For those of you late to the party (don’t worry, there aren’t too many adults here yet), Adventure Time is an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward (here in Australia it airs on Cartoon Network Australia (censored) and Go (uncensored)). I love Adventure Time and sit down to…
In January this year, I asked a bunch of writers what their writing goals were for 2013. Was their focus going to be novels, short stories, non-fiction… what? I was interested to see what everyone was planning to achieve, so conducted a poll on my Facebook page. Here are the results…
Last weekend, I took my two kids to a book fair. In the interests of book-loving parents everywhere, I thought I’d share with you what made this particular book fair so very wonderful! 1. Stock plenty of kids’ books! Kids love looking at and buying books! If you’ve got a…
I’m so proud of *my* writers – the members of the Northern Beaches Writers’ Group. I’m proud of them because they come from many different backgrounds and bring a wealth of experience to their stories. Some of them write crime, romance or speculative fiction, some write children’s, young-adult or teen…
As some of you may recall, earlier this year my writers’ group and I decided to raise some money for The Kids’ Cancer Project at Westmead Children’s Hospital – doing what we most love to do… write. We wrote, illustrated and printed a book for 11-16 year olds entitled Scribbles…
