The program for the Melbourne Writers Festival was released late last week to much excitement and fanfare (including a site crash, I believe, due to traffic). After getting home from my travels to Sydney, I sat down to go through it thoroughly and was very impressed. So many excellent events and I really love the…
I’m heading off to Sydney this afternoon to teach at the NSW Writers’ Centre tomorrow. It’s always nice to get back home (part of me will always call it that, no matter how long I live in Melbourne) and I hope to get down and spend some time harbour-side. I miss it. I can…
Should I Enter Competitions if I’m not a “Serious Writer” Yet? I received the above question the other day during an email exchange with a reader and I’ve reproduced it here – with permission – because I’ve heard it on a number of occasions over the years. I hope that by formulating some semblance of…
Where did we stay? We stayed in the Monti district, on the Via Merulana. Honestly, I didn’t know much about the place ahead of booking our Airbnb and chose it mostly because it was close to Termini – the major railway station, where we would be arriving from Venice and so I wanted to get…
Oh, how I wish I was frolicking around in sun-drenched fields at the moment, as opposed to shivering through an Antarctic Vortex! Never mind, we push on regardless, don’t we? All the more reason to celebrate the good things going on this week. I went to the optometrist a month or so ago after experiencing…
Over the years, through my writing, or teaching/mentoring, or working at the Emerging Writers’ Festival, I’ve gained a huge appreciation and respect for the literary organisations or initiatives that continue in their advocacy for writers. This isn’t easy – nor, I suspect, has it ever been – but as governmental support of the arts dwindles,…
Where did we stay? We stayed in the 4th arrondissement, which is smack in the centre of Paris. If you do a Google Map search, you’ll see it’s within walking distance to many of the big attractions and train stations. You can also catch a bus up the Boulevard de Sebastopol that will let you off…
1. Beginning with this lovely blue sky of wispy clouds earlier in the week – lucky we made the most of this weather while we could because our part of the country is going to be blasted by ice, wind and snow over the coming week! 2. I taught an amazing class of blogging students…
Anyone who arrives home from holidays can be forgiven for wistfully looking over their photos of their time away and, having done so, head straight to the internet to check on their points status to see when they might be able to go away again. I think they can be forgiven because that’s exactly what…
