— JC Inman With my clothes all washed, but suitcases still on the bedroom floor, I take time to reflect on this year’s Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF), glass of wine in hand. Writers festivals are a bit like a coin jar: you’re never quite sure of how much gold you’re gunna come away … Continue reading
– by JC Inman The sun is rising over the rice paddies, noisily welcomed by a large flock of muddy ducks. I watch them from the pagoda above the private pool attached to my villa; soaking in the inexpensive luxury of Bali. Across the rice paddies another tourist lays in her pagoda. I wave to … Continue reading
– by JC Inman A swarm of ravenous literary types have begun descending on Bali’s cultural Mecca of Ubud ready to devour this year’s crop of luminaries, for this weekend is the 10th Ubud Writers and Readers Festival. As one of the madding crowd, I will be throwing myself into festival in the same way … Continue reading
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