Critical examination of bookish events, news and debate.
This week I’m in Women’s Ink, the magazine of the Society of Women Writers NSW, writing about the evolution of communication. This year, the Society of Women Writers NSW is celebrating both its 90th anniversary and its inaugural literary festival Dare to be an Author. So this special edition of…
As some of you may know, I recently judged the Australian Horror Writers’ Association’s short story and flash fiction competition. It involved reading 154 stories and over 385,000 words. At 12pt Times New Roman font, spaced at 1.5 lines, that was 1,066 pages of writing. Whoa! I’m so glad I…
You know how sometimes you enter a competition and think to yourself: Gee, it would be nice to win, but that won’t happen so I may as well just get on with other things And then you don’t win, so at least you win at ‘being right’…? Well *that* but…
Because I’m incredibly lucky to be a mother of two wonderful healthy children… Because giving sick kids a story to read and spending the next few months raising money for them is definitely something I can do… Because my writers’ group wanted to do the same… The Northern Beaches Writers’…
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…
