View from my table at yesterday’s Emerging Writers’ Festival Page Parlour If I was in any doubt before, the five minutes it took for me to clear ice off my windscreen this morning was irrefutable proof that winter has arrived. Now it has melted away and the sun is shining, I can try to feel…
It occurs to me that I haven’t talked about my day at the Reading Matters conference last week yet. Not here on the blog, anyway. In ‘real life’ I’ve been chatting to anyone who’ll listen about what a lovely day I had and how I finally got to meet Twitter pals and authors I admire….
Back to regular book blogging, however the vlog from the other week went so well I might consider doing more. Do let me know if you’d like that! It was fun. Anyway! I’m procrastinating. Help me? Thanks! I’m trying to work on a poem and it’s not being very cooperative. Cinquains are cheeky. Can you…
As I stood waiting for the train yesterday afternoon tired families trudged past, many children carefully holding orange NGV helium balloons between their fingers. Before this, on the upper platform, I walked past a couple with a young baby; the father, at that moment, held up the child to sniff and check for a dirty…
A quick one today to say that I’m guest posting over at Happy Child, ‘My memories are alive with the sounds of motherhood.’ It touches on how the senses (hearing in this case – and I’ve had my mild worries about it before) shape our memories. I’d love to see you pop in! *** Not…
Edit: updated here! Writer 1: Can you believe I haven’t heard back yet about my submission to that journal? Even worse, they ran an article almost exactly the same as my piece in their recent edition! Writer 2: Jerks. Writer 1: I’m sure they took my idea. Their loss – I could’ve written it so…
The Town Hall program at the Emerging Writers’ Festival is the one weekend I block out long in advance to enjoy. All fledgling writers AND bloggers would benefit attending, in my opinion, if you’re serious about learning about craft, or at the very least discovering more about the writing scene. I’ve selected below a cross-section…
The program of the 2011 Emerging Writers’ Festival is now available online. Go and click and see what wonderful writers and sessions are on offer this year – not to mention the revamped, extremely cool website! I’m excited to be able to say I’ll be speaking on Sunday 29th May. Details below: Children’s books, 11am…
The Play of Days: contemplating play through motherhood by Julienne van Loon, Ways of Seeing: Griffith REVIEW #31 On books and “the conditions of reading”: “Soon, we are told, we will call up on “bookscreens” any “text” on demand, and we will be able to change its appearance, ask questions of it, “interact” with it……
