Another article I wrote for the ACT Writers Centre, this time about my experience at the inaugural Canberra Writers Festival over 26-28 August 2016. The 2016 Canberra Writers Festival was my first major writing event. Among all the author interviews, book launches, panel discussions, writing workshops, festival artists, pop-up bookstores, signings, corridor networking, macaron towers,…
My final post as blogger-in-residence for the ACT Writers Centre can be found here (or below, as usual). Thanks for coming along for the ride, and prepare for the brutal honesty… Keeping the Dream Alive I want to be a writer. For the longest time I found this difficult to admit. I guess I thought…
Another one of my posts from the ACT Writers Centre’s CAPITAL LETTERS blog. The link to the article is here, or you can, as always, read the full text below: Latin verbs, letters home and Stephenie Meyer: an interview with Daniel O’Malley I went to the same primary school as Daniel O’Malley; he was…
My fifth CAPITAL YARNS blog post is up. This time the topic is how to raise children while also trying to find time to write. If you have kids, this should all sound horribly familiar. If you don’t have kids, stop reading now because this may put you off entirely… Original post is here: actwritersblog.com/2016/04/19/writing-with-kids/….
My next CAPITAL LETTERS blog entry is an interview with Capital Yarns author Sean Costello. The original post can be found here, or, as usual, you can read it all below! I was in Harry Hartog’s in Woden the other day when I came across something unusual on the counter. Neatly folded in a…
Ever thought about setting your fiction in the place you live? My latest blog post on the ACT Writers Centre website (actwritersblog.com/2016/03/23/setting-your-fiction-in-canberra/) looks into this very issue, weighing up the pros and cons. It is about my hometown – Australia’s capital of Canberra – but most of the concepts apply wherever you live. In case…
My next CAPITAL LETTERS blog post is up! Head to actwritersblog.com/2016/03/08/first-encounters-with-a-poetry-slam/ to read about my adventures at Canberra’s biggest poetry slam, BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!. Or you can just scroll down! First Encounters at a Poetry Slam Poetry is intimidating. For many (me included) it can come across as pretentious, or stuffy, or borderline incomprehensible….