I am one of the Overload Poetry Festival reviewers this year (complete with a generous introduction by Maxine – colour me blushing!) and my first review is up if you’d like to go take a look.
I have an essay called ‘If The Blood Had Come’ coming out next month in The Sound of Silence: Journeys Through Miscarriage. The anthology has twenty-two women, including my friend Tiff, recall their painful experiences and share the insight these provided. The book trailer explains further: I won’t say too much at this point what…
Books discussed or mentioned: The Book of Fame by Lloyd Jones Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa Siddhartha by Herman Hesse The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Forever by Judy Blume The Mammoth Book of Dracula, edited by Stephen Jones Anno Dracula by Kim Newman A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel…
I ducked into the Melbourne Writers’ Festival yesterday and looped my DSLR around my neck in the hopes of getting some nice shots. Early for my session, I spent my time wandering around the NGV Man Style exhibition (one quibble: it was quite small – I wanted more!), the Children’s Literature market, and the David…
As I mentioned on Wednesday, it’s Book Week and I thought it would be a good time to post how Keira went this year in the Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge. (Here’s last year’s list.) Here is the official tally (in random order – as you’ll see!). 1 Rowling, J. K. ~ Harry Potter and the…
I was recently re-reading an essay by Peter Porter called ‘The Old Good Books’ where he talks about how our reading is shaped by our formative years and how our recollections of favourite texts are so ingrained because at the time they are competing with other texts (like study materials). He wonders if, as we…
This is the opening paragraph of a recent article I saw in The Guardian, written by Sarah Stratford: “I can’t.” What? Did Hermione Granger really say “I can’t” during the climactic battle in the final chapter of the Harry Potter film saga? Presented with her chance to destroy one of the horcruxes she had put…
Otherwise titled: What I’m Reading (August) – Vlog. I broke two rules the other day: 1) Never, ever, vlog while your cat is awake. 2) Don’t swear on your blog* Observe! I ended it there because I think you can tell from my facial expressions and the number of “Aahhs” that I was a little…
The most recent (July) edition of The Victorian Writer, the magazine produced by the Victorian Writers’ Centre, features an article written by my friend Laurie about the ‘Inaugural Sub-Committee’, an online writers group that can trace its genesis back to this post by Phill English*. I’m happy to count myself among its membership. At the…
