Angela Savage is an award-winning writer of crime fiction and the new director of Writers Victoria. We caught up with Angela ahead of her Canberra later this month… Why do you think crime fiction resonates with so many people? What draws you to the genre? Earlier this year I wrote an article on the appeal …
By Angharad Lodwick As any aspiring writer knows, or is shortly about to find out, writing and rejection go hand in hand. J K Rowling was famously rejected as many as 12 times before she managed to find a publisher for her best-selling Harry Potter series. While I’m not quite at the stage of submitting …
Under Sedation: Canberra verse remixed takes on a curated collection of compositions from the 1940s to the present day, weaving together the old, the new, sung, spoken, published, drafted, applauded, unknown, the earnest, irreverent—and turns them into a new theatre work. The Street talked to Adele Chynoweth, almost a year after interviewing her about her commission and …
By Rosalind Moran To translate written work, especially colourful prose or poetry, is an exercise both punctuated by glee and fraught with anxiety. The ethical pitfalls of translation are many, and synonyms somehow never quite enough. If one resignedly steamrolls alliteration and meter, the yells they emit could be transliterated as anything from “ouch”, to …
By Emma Gibson I’ve already shared some of my highlights from the recent Canberra Writers Festival. Over the course of that weekend I attended several young adult fiction events, which merited a post of its own. On the Sunday of the festival, I went to a session titled ‘The importance of Australian YA’. Immediately before …
POETRY ON THE MOVE is a festival of poetry, taking place in Canberra from the 14th to 21st of September. We asked Paul Munden, Festival Director, about this year’s program. The theme for this year is ‘Border Crossings’. How has that manifested itself in the festival? The theme emerged naturally. ‘Borders’ of all sorts are very much …
We chat to widely published and widely travelled author Antony Loewenstein about his path to the journalism trade and the place of news today, ahead of his freelancing and journalism workshop… How did you get into journalism? Can you describe your early career? I started freelancing in Melbourne in the early 2000s, writing for free …
By Emma Gibson As Sue mentioned on her site Whispering Gums there were so many choices on offer at the Canberra Writers Festival, and I attended too many to list them all, so here are a few of my highlights… Book launch – Merlinda Bobis Often we go to book launches for writers with whom …
Learn how to self-edit fiction like an editor. Irma Gold is an both an author and an editor, with four picture books and 18 years of editing experience under her belt, both as a freelance editor and in-house. This weekend, she’ll be teaching a session on how to structurally self-edit your manuscript at the upcoming …
By Angharad Lodwick Where do I even begin? Is it two and a half years ago when I got a copy of Bitter Greens as a Christmas present from my aunt? Is it several weeks ago when I read Dragonclaw as the book for the feminist fantasy book club I’m part of? Or was it …
By Angharad Lodwick I love anime. I remember watching Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura as a kid, then falling for Studio Ghibli classics like Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke when I was older. There is something compelling about characters who are at once paragons of independence and yet still ultra-feminine. As I delved deeper into …
Like a Love Affair: Ivan Southall—Fellowship Presentation at the National Library of Australia by Dr Gabrielle Carey By Angharad Lodwick I remember reading a book in the late 1990s when I was in about grade six. All I could remember was that it was about a group of children who get stranded in a cave … Continue reading
Our spotlight on member successes and achievements. Hearty congratulations to all! Jo Forestier Jo had a poem ‘Believe in Me’ published in the Waco Wordfest 2017 anthology. Biff Ward Biff was a winner (from a circle of six winners)—of the Griffith Review Novella competition for 2017, that will be published later this month. Ron Schroer Ron was shortlisted … Continue reading
It’s pulling some big names from around the country, but the 2nd annual Canberra Writers Festival is also presenting a selection of talent from Canberra’s own writing community. The Festival begins next week, running from Friday 25th August to Sunday 27th August 2017 in venues around town. Read on for ten locals to look for – … Continue reading
Greg Gould is a writer of plays, short films, short stories and poetry, and the co-founder and editor of Canberra-based publisher Blemish Books. His latest adventure is The Inheritance, a play produced by Budding Theatre to be presented at Belconnen Community Theatre on 16-19 August. We caught up with Greg to talk about the writing process, and … Continue reading
By Emma Gibson I’ve always loved botanical water colours and sketches. It could be because my mother is a horticulturalist, or it could simply be that I like the aesthetic, the old-fashioned quaintness of pre-photographic likenesses and the way the representation of nature invites us to consider the world around us. Early colonials in Australia … Continue reading
By Emma Gibson There’s something remarkable in the capacity of audio to transport us to different places and to the past. Just like smell can conjure up memories, a piece of music can keep taking us back to a particular moment in life, and I think any audio recording can do the same. I have … Continue reading
By Emma Gibson One of my primary motivations in applying to be an ACT Lit-Blogger of the Future was the opportunity to engage not only with Australia’s contemporary literary scene, but also narratives of the past. I don’t think we can look to the future without understanding the past. The talk Indigenous Lives was about … Continue reading
