Can you briefly describe your writing career? A happy accident—for a while I thought I was a painter. At first I just played, but then words found a pattern and a place in my life. Thirteen (almost) books later … and some great opportunities. What inspires your creativity? The world. Walking. Walking with a sunhat … Continue reading
Blogger in Residence, Penny Hanley, provides us with some food blogging resources and tips. More than simply a love of food Blogging gives you a chance to express yourself and your passions. Food bloggers write about recipes and food, some review hotels, restaurants and cookbooks—and all are keen to share their enthusiasm about good food … Continue reading
—Sophie Constable, Blogger in Residence With books spanning two millennia, authoring stories from 12th century France to modern day Russia, Sophie Masson speaks to us about the weight of history, the experience of the foreign, and the advantages of being an Australian writer. Two millennia—goodness, how startling to see it that way! Makes me feel like … Continue reading
Today, 20 June is World Refugee Day. Blogger in Residence, Penny Hanley, looks into how art and literature depicts the lives of refugees. “Refugees live in a divided world, between countries in which they cannot live and countries which they may not enter.” Elie Wiesel, American, Romanian-born Holocaust survivor, writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, … Continue reading
This week we ask workshop tutor, Dr Pippa Carron, five questions about writing and editing. Pippa is teaching two upcoming workshops at the Writers Centre: Grammar and Punctuation Primer for Fiction and Nonfiction Writers and Focus on Stylistics. Check our website for more information and to get involved. Can you briefly describe your writing and editing career? … Continue reading
Sophie Constable, one of our new Bloggers in Residence, discusses how our canine friends are much like our favourite page-turners. A good dog is like a good book. Well-loved (hence dog-eared). Always there when you need them. Minor indiscretions can be forgiven because they’ve captured your heart. As a veterinarian and an author, I’m well … Continue reading
Kabu Okai-Davies reflects on how his views on the empty page have differed over the span of his writing career. I used to be afraid of this enchanted void, the empty page; it is now a friend, a mistress and my muse. The empty page is a mirror, reflecting the enigma of my being. It gives glimpses … Continue reading
Recently our Blogger in Residence Nalini Haynes talked to Will Kostakis about equity and representation in literature. Will is “made in Australia from imported ingredients”. His nana came to Australia by boat as an adult with a primary school education. Her children, Will’s parent’s generation were the first in the family to finish high school, … Continue reading
Expert on Varuna Writers’ House opportunities and writer, Biff Ward, shares her wisdom on how to submit a winning application. Photograph by: Bette Mifsud Varuna is the National Writers’ House in Katoomba. It’s a two-storey home that was built by writer Eleanor Dark and her husband, Eric Dark. Gifted to the state of NSW by their … Continue reading
Blogger in Residence, Rosalind Moran, questions the notion of Women’s Fiction as a genre, and what this means for writers. Book categories are strange creatures, not unlike boa serpents. With every new release, the book category snake comes along, pinches and squeezes— reduces—and then swallows its prey whole. Yet what pushes both readers and publishers … Continue reading
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