It’s ‘Women’s History Month’! So the gracious Gillian Polack invited me to consider how we’re living through ‘epoch-changing times’ in which ‘all of us are making history’, and I put my mind to thinking how the experiences of the last few years have affected my work-life balance. The results of…
Today is the last day of Women’s History Month, and to celebrate I’m over on the wonderful Gillian Polack’s blog talking about the importance of visibility, especially for writers. In it, I discuss winning awards, getting reviews, reading in a gender vacuum, and disappearing from history… Click here to read…
Last month, I shared a photo on my Facebook stream about the universe. It had stars and mountains and a lot of swearing in it. As soon as she saw it, my mother called. She was surprised I would swear on Facebook. Wasn’t I worried what other people would think?…
What I learnt at Conflux 7: From Here to There Looking back over the four-day writing festival that was this year’s Conflux, it might be quicker to list what I didn’t learn during my stay in Canberra. But I’m not a negative kind of person so, although it’ll take longer,…
