Blogger in Residence, Penny Hanley, looks into what you need to know to take the plunge and to get your start at screenwriting. ‘There’s never been a better time to be a writer!’ said screenwriter and creative producer Mike Jones last Friday at Canberra’s National Film and Sound Archive. Opportunities for screenwriters are expanding enormously. He … Continue reading
A big welcome to our newest Capital Letter’s Bloggers in Residence: Penny Hanley, Rosalind Moran, Nalini Haynes and Sophie Constable. We had so many wonderful applications this round, that we’ve opened the position up to four bloggers, who will bring you a whole bunch of wonderful articles over the next six months. Have a peruse below … Continue reading
Matthew C Lamb reflects on his place in the world as a writer, and what the future holds in his final post as Blogger in Residence. I want to be a writer. For the longest time I found this difficult to admit. I guess I thought it an unrealistic aspiration, or that I would be … Continue reading
Essayist-in-residence Kabu Okai-Davies waxes lyrical on his relationship with poetry. The pleasures of poetry rest within the lingering sensation of memory, left behind in the infinite spaces of the mind. Like trails of star dusts, every poem makes love to the reader behind the dark shadows of secret desires. Poetry is like a lover, slipping away … Continue reading
Sarah Rice’s poem, Action (Bus Route 2) was Highly Commended for the 2015 Michael Thwaites Poetry Award. This poem was described by judge, Melinda Smith as “A personable, compassionate meditation on having and not-having with some sharply observed moments”. Action (Bus Route 2) There’s someone living in my bus stop two bikes three bags and … Continue reading
After returning from his trip to China, Kabu Okai-Davies shares his thoughts from this year’s Bookworm International Literary Festival, held in Beijing. In March 2016, I participated in the tenth annual Bookworm Literary Festival in Beijing, my third visit to China. During my previous visits I travelled beyond Beijing, to places like Shanghai, Xinging and … Continue reading
Blogger in Residence, Matthew C Lamb discusses the joys and frustrations of writing when you have children. Before I begin, an insight into my life. I was sitting down to write this blog post when there was a knock at the door of my study.* Irritation seized me. I stopped typing, stopped moving, stopped … Continue reading
L.J.M. Owen, Queanbeyan cosy crime writer, has (accidentally) performed the ultimate publishing experiment: publishing a novel herself, and then again through a traditional publisher. Read on to find out her conclusions. This article was first published in the ACT Writers Centre’s monthly member magazine, ACTWrite, April 2016. If you’d like to receive ACTWrite and read more articles like this, become … Continue reading
C.H. Pearce’s short story, Torvald’s Year, won the 2015 Marjorie Graber-McInnis Short Story Award.
“This account of how poor Torvald struggles to escape his wretched life below ground is a superb example of speculative fiction. It plunges the reader straight into a dystopian world of ‘suffering’ without any of those explanations and technological details which would detract from the story.” (Judge, Maureen Bettle). Continue reading
Blogger at Writer of Oz, Sophie Mannix, outlines why rejection of your writing shouldn’t get you down; there are so many reasons that are not related to your writing talents that play a part in the decision to publish. Writers are always told that to avoid rejection, they need to proofread, proofread, proofread. Follow the submission … Continue reading
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