In what is probably my last festival gig for the year, I’m going to be speaking at the Brimbank Literary Festival. This festival goes from 13-24 September and it has some good events in the program. The ones that especially caught my eye: Ana Kokkinos featuring in the opening event and a narrative in comics workshop. (In case you don’t know,...
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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...
Read MoreByron 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...
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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...
Read MoreLaunching 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...
Read MoreWelcome 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...
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