I’ve been spending the last two months or so doing an artist residency in the town of Taos, New Mexico. I feel very lucky to have been given this opportunity – a fellowship from The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. During my time here, I’ve been working on my novel. While working here in Taos, I’ve been thinking about such...
Read MorePublication in The Best of The Lifted Brow
I’ve been meaning to mention this for a while: an early version of chapter 2 from my novel-in-progress has been published in the anthology The Best of The Lifted Brow. This piece, published under the title “What are the attributes of God?”, was initially published in literary magazine The Lifted Brow in 2011. This Best of anthology...
Read MoreFrom Ólafsfjörasður
I’m writing this from Ólafsfjörður, in northern Iceland, where I arrived a few hours ago. This is the start of my two-month residency at Listhús, where I’ll be working on the draft manuscript for my novel. So far, I have written what I estimate is about 40% of a draft manuscript. At this point, I am feeling pretty good about the state of the...
Read More8 June 2013: Reading in Berkeley, California
I’m really looking forward to the next reading that I’m doing while travelling. I’m appearing at a literary cabaret that’s curated by RADAR Productions, which is run by San Francisco writer Michelle Tea. As mentioned on RADAR’s website – “RADAR conducts presenting, commissioning, professional development and...
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Tom Cho 曹勵善 on X (formerly Twitter): “Relief: when what you’ve written the night before passes the morning after test. Still the hardest section of this chapter to write though. / X” Relief: when what you’ve written the night before passes the morning after test. Still the hardest section of this chapter to write...
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Thea Astley. She’s dead, but she’s still winning prizes. That’s how good she is. Yes, Thea Astley’s piece “Hunting the Wild Pineapple” has won the final of the Meanjin Tournament of Books. While I would have loved for my piece to have won the final, I certainly didn’t expect that it would make it so far through the...
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