Us Mob Writing is a group of First Nations Australians peoples’ with both emerging and established writers, poets and playwrights. Their writers past and present have written poetry, plays, songs, documentary films, short films, TV dramas, children’s story books, novels, short stories, biographies, and autobiographies. They include in their company national and international major literary … Continue reading
Category Archives: writers group
PoetryAlive, immersive, and regional.
As poets and poetry educators my partner Nicola Bowery and I have a passion for bringing people to poetry. We’ve been running our PoetryAlive weekends here in Braidwood (with occasional forays into Berry and Sydney) for almost ten years now and so it seemed to like a good time to take stock of what we’ve … Continue reading
In review: CONFLUX 9/ NATCON 52
Bob Phillips attended the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild-hosted annual CONFLUX: an event for writers of Science Fiction and beyond. This year, it was held in collaboration with the similarly-genred NATCON. Here are his thoughts on the convention that was. Speculative fiction [spec fic] is a broad church: it covers science fiction, fantasy, horror, artwork, games, … Continue reading
June at the ACT Writers Centre
Thursday June 6th Meet the Miles Franklin Shortlist: Q&A and book signing at the NLA In partnership with the National Library of Australia and the Copyright Agency Limited, the ACT Writers Centre presents an in conversation event with three of this year’s Miles Franklin Shortlist: Romy Ash (Floundering), Annah Faulkner (The Beloved) and Carrie Tiffany … Continue reading
The Writers of Us Mob: Lyndy Delian
Us Mob Writing is a group of First Nations Australians peoples’ with both emerging and established writers, poets and playwrights. Their writers past and present have written poetry, plays, songs, documentary films, short films, TV dramas, children’s story books, novels, short stories, biographies, and autobiographies. They include in their company national and international major literary … Continue reading
Making a Writers Group Happen
ACT Writers Centre intern Laura Bartlett has been investigating the benefits and processes surrounding starting a writers group, particularly here at the Centre. Here’s what she found — we’d say she’s saved you a bit of research (hint, hint). If you are looking for a supportive environment where you, as a writer, can challenge yourself … Continue reading
The Writers of Us Mob: Kerry Reed-Gilbert
Us Mob Writing is a group of First Nations Australians peoples’ with both emerging and established writers, poets and playwrights. Their writers past and present have written poetry, plays, songs, documentary films, short films, TV dramas, children’s story books, novels, short stories, biographies, and autobiographies. They include in their company national and international major literary … Continue reading
Meet the Writers of Us Mob
Us Mob Writing is a group of First Nations Australians peoples’ with both emerging and established writers, poets and playwrights. Their writers past and present have written poetry, plays, songs, documentary films, short films, TV dramas, children’s story books, novels, short stories, biographies, and autobiographies. They include in their company national and international major literary … Continue reading