Angela Savage is an award-winning writer of crime fiction and the new director of Writers Victoria. We caught up with Angela ahead of her Canberra later this month… Why do you think crime fiction resonates with so many people? What draws you to the genre? Earlier this year I wrote an article on the appeal … Continue reading
Can you tell us briefly about your writing and performing career? I started as a Garema Place busker in the Doug Anthony AllStars. We wrote songs, jokes, built 3 anarchic, sex-fuelled characters. Went to the UK, got on TV, got famous. Spent a decade touring, making shows, TV, art, books, music. Came home, made game shows … Continue reading
Words by Bec Fleming, ACTWC Blogger in Residence It is a kind of meditative state, spending time in a gallery with a notebook. I spent last Saturday afternoon with the Pulse exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery in a workshop led by the delightful Sarah St Vincent Welch. I say with quite purposefully. When … Continue reading
Kaz Delaney will be running a YA writing workshop at the ACT Writers Centre on Saturday 8 November. Bookings essential. Details here. 1.What is it about Young Adult literature that you love? The freshness, the rawness of the age. I adore teenagers – they’re irreverent, fun and so filled with passion. Often it’s misplaced but … Continue reading
Benjamin Law is holding two masterclasses at the ACT Writers Centre—The Story of My Life on Saturday 1 November, and Feature Writing and the Business of Freelancing on Sunday 2 November. Bookings by phone on 6262 9191 or online here. 1. What is it about writing that you love? Mostly I write non-fiction, which gives … Continue reading
