Young writers, strap on your boots…

Young writers aged between 14-17, check out the SA Writers’ Centre Teen Bootcamp being held during the October school holidays. You’ll find the program here and below is a quick overview of my session on Wednesday, 2nd October. Registrations are closing soon!   Plotter, pantser, necromancer  One of the questions most commonly asked of a […]

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Sing it back…

So, the biennial, immersive, memorable Reading Matters 2013 conference is over. This is not a comprehensive, professional recap (see Danielle Binks’ posts here and Zac Harding’s here for that)—this is more a view from the trenches with tasteful photography. Ahem. I prepared the shit out of this event (that’s what I have to do to […]

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In which I namedrop…

  It’s Reading Matters 2013 next week! Imagine the little bumblebee-girl in Blind Melon’s ‘No Rain’ video clip (you’re lost, you dance to a different beat, nobody understands you) then, by chance (or by purchasing a ticket), you stumble into a field (or the RMIT building) and discover your people. It’s a pretty awesome lineup […]

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Perth Writers’ Festival wrap…

I don’t know what it is about writers’ festivals, but I always get on the homebound plane feeling bereft, as if someone’s taken an ice-cream scoop to my lower belly. This post is likely to be brimful of post-festival love, but I’ll try to be professional. Wednesday, 20th: I stepped out of the airport to […]

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Next week in Melbourne…

Aside from my Melbourne Writers’ Festival sessions, there’s a special event being held at the State Library next Tuesday evening. I’ll be in-conversation with Fiona Wood, author of the wonderful Six Impossible Things, talking about Friday Brown (which is released tomorrow), my inspiration, ideas and how to disembark a tree (that’s how to get down from […]

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