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  • Tom 3:27 am on 26 August 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Publishing… The Whole Shebang 

    Oops. I forgot to mention here that I’m speaking at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival tomorrow. (It wasn’t part of a prank – I genuinely forgot.)

    I’ll be speaking for half an hour about applying for arts funding. Here are some details for the event:

    Publishing… The Whole Shebang

    A day-long overview of the complete spectrum of the publishing industry. (More info here in the official event description)

    Featuring Peter Donoughue, Bob Sessions, Michael Heyward, Sue Hines, Aviva Tuffield, Toni Jordan, Christopher Milne, Tom Cho, and Clare Forster

    Fri 27 August, 10am-5pm
    Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
    $100 / $90 (buy tickets)

     

  • Tom 11:33 am on 1 August 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Byron Bay Writers Festival (the short-short version) 

    I’ve been so busy getting ready to move house that I forgot to mention – I’m going to the Byron Bay Writers Festival.  I was initially scheduled to appear on panels on Friday 6 August and Saturday 7 August, but house moving has unfortunately interfered with that. However, I will be going up for the Friday of the festival.

    Here’s what I’ll be doing:

    9.15am – 10.15am, Friday 6 August, Blue Marquee, North Beach
    Our whizzing, whirling world: can writing reign supreme? With Tom Cho, Angela Meyer, Peter Skrzynecki. Chair: Susan Wyndham

    12.15pm – 1.15pm, Friday 6 August, ABC3 Marquee, North Beach
    Briefs: celebrating the short form. With Tom Cho, Cate Kennedy, Karen Hitchcock, O Thiam Chin. Chair: Chris Hanley

    It’s a shame I’ve had to cut my festival participation short but I’m glad that I’ll be there for at least one day. If you’re in the neighbourhood, please come along and say hi.

     

  • Tom 6:34 am on 9 July 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Winter Stories 

    I have a reading coming up. There’ll be mulled wine. Sounds good, eh?

    Asialink Winter Writing Series presents

    Winter Stories

    Thursday 15 July, 6:00pm-7:30pm

    Sidney Myer Asia Centre
    Cnr Swanston Street and Monash Road
    University of Melbourne

    On a cold winter’s night, gather close for some good old-fashioned story-telling with all the right ingredients: mulled wine, spiced chai and a range of great tales from the region. Winter Stories places five of Australia’s punchiest fiction writers in a comfy armchair, hands them a microphone, and lets them take you away.

    Follow an all-women landmine clearing team through the fields of northern Cambodia, fish up the past with a Japanese abalone diver and a Buddhist monk, and walk the French-inflected streets of colonial Hanoi.

    Featuring: Laura Jean McKay, Catherine Cole, Xenia Hanusiak, Kalinda Ashton, Pip Newling and Tom Cho.

    Winter Stories includes the launch of The Perfumed River, a new anthology that offers diverse perspectives on Vietnam. Work from the anthology presents a portrait of a unique nation’s cultural strength, built from struggles through colonization by the French, occupation by the Japanese, the American War, and the transition to a modern tourist economy.

     

  • Tom 6:24 am on 2 July 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Launching Voiceworks magazine tonight 

    I’m launching the latest issue of Voiceworks magazine tonight at Bella Union Bar at the Trades Hall (corner of Lygon and Victoria Streets, Carlton). The gig goes from 6-8:30.

    Voiceworks provided me with my second ever poem publication and one of my earlier short fiction publications. There are a few lit journals in Australia that I have particular affection for and Voiceworks is one of them. It’ll be good to hang at a Voiceworks gig again.

    P.S. Here’s how my launch speech begins:

    Whitney Houston once sang: “I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.”

    Learning to love youth arts is the greatest love of all.

    Edit: Coming soon-ish… my full launch speech.

     

  • Tom 10:25 pm on 21 June 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Welcome and yay! 

    Here it is – my rebooted website. My fiction pieces seem to be getting longer but most of my posts here will be shorter. Due to Twitter, I have really come to enjoy micro-blogging but, hey, why should Twitter get all of my best lines? (This isn’t the end of my longer, more reflective posts though. I like doing those and will still occasionally throw them out here.)

    You can also expect to see more pictures, videos and other media here. I’ll now be tagging posts too. In fact, via the gigs tag, you’ll still be able to find out about my latest gigs. (That old favourite, the Melbourne Writers’ Festival parody, has a tag too: writersfestivalparody.) But far more importantly, I hope this website will better reflect the streaming thoughts of my day-to-day artistic practice and life. So consider this blog both a glimpse into and a part of my studio.

    There are still more changes to come but this is how it’s looking so far. So, in conclusion, welcome and yay!

     

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