Reader, writer, Melburnian, 20-something, gin-drinker, Bowie nut, movie-lover, vintage fan, absurdist, aesthete.
I’ve reviewed books for newspapers like the Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald, and for journals and websites around the world. I write book features semi-regularly for The Big Issue. I blogged for three years on literature for Crikey. LiteraryMinded has been running since May 2007, at an average of two posts per week up until 2013, when I deliberately decided to post more sporadically in order to expand my (literary) horizons.
I have a chapbook of flash fiction coming out with Inkerman & Blunt in early 2014, and I’m currently editing an anthology of creepy stories for Spineless Wonders.
I’m completing a Doctor of Creative Arts within the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney. The novel that I’m writing as part of my thesis was longlisted for the Mslexia Women’s Novel Competition (UK) in late 2011. I was also Highly Commended in the Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards (Written Word category) in 2012.
CV alert! Short stories, articles, essays, reviews, interviews, poems published in/broadcast on:
Seizure, Torpedo Greatest Hits, The Lifted Brow, A Cafe in Space (The Anais Nin Journal), Australian Book Review, Radio National’s The Book Show, Hecate, Australian Women’s Book Review, Viewpoint, The Sex Mook, Idiom 23, Lip Magazine, Page Seventeen, Sketch, Story To, Southerly,The Death Mook, Wet Ink, Through the Clock’s Workings (the Remix My Lit anthology), Cordite Poetry Review, Mascara Literary Review, The Short Review, Slow Trains, Emerging Writers Festival’s The Reader, Writing Queensland, Newswrite, AntiTHESIS, Killings, Readings Monthly, Tincture, Bookslut, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Australian and The Big Issue.
You can find some of my short fiction here.
I was a judge in the Sydney Writers’ Centre’s Best Australian Blogs Competition in 2011 and 2012, and I often teach workshops on blogging, online writing and social media.
I have chaired panels, been on panels, or performed at Perth Writers Festival, Sydney Writers’ Festival, Adelaide’s Format Festival, Williamstown Literary Festival, the Emerging Writers’ Festival, the Australian Booksellers Association Conference, Byron Bay Writers Festival, Write Around the Murray, Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival (for which I have also been an official blogger), the Newstead Short Story Tattoo, Melbourne’s Overload Poetry Festival, the Ubud Writers’ and Readers’ Festival in Bali, and the National Young Writers’ Festival in Newcastle.
I’ve been interviewed in/by the Book Industry Collaborative Council, Age’s Melbourne Magazine, Epicure, Voiceworks, Women’s Health, Sketch, Victorian Writer, the Sydney Writers Centre, Verity La, The Signal Express, Embedded Literati and other publications in print and online.
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Nice to read your review of ‘A Common Loss’. Kirsten is a very interesting writer, I think.
Cheers, Lisa. She certainly is. Can’t wait to read more from her.
Angela, you were missed at the Willi Lit Festival today! I attended your blogging workshop there last year and really enjoyed it.
That is so sweet, thank you! I actually went to Clunes Booktown, as I’d never been before! It’s a great little fair/festival. But I do love going to Willy, perhaps next year. Hope you enjoyed yourself.
Thanks, the Willy Lit Fest has been fun. Great to hear Hilary Bonney & Kerry Greenwood chatting about the journey from book to screen. Clunes sounds like fun. I hope the two events are scheduled on different weekends next year!
I saw you in the “Novel” discussion yesterday at the EWF. I waited behind to talk (probably looked like that stalker you remember), but you kept talking to others and walking off.
Oh well. I tried. Hope you had a good day.
Rebecca
Oh! Sorry, I didn’t see you! Was chatting to my friend Robyne and was trying to rush off to my friend who was waiting downstairs. Sometimes I put my head down and just walk because I know too many people and I could end up talking all day. But I honestly didn’t notice anyone waiting. So sorry! Hopefully next time. Just yell out ‘Angela!’
When I heard you ask Emily a question, I thought, “I know her! That’s Angela from Literary Minded!” I was going to walk off but I made myself stay. I finally convinced myself it was you. If it wasn’t I wouldn’t see you again anyway. I waited a bit and then when you kept moving on I figured I better move on in case it actually wasn’t you. Bahaha
I’m going to the pitch. You going back this year?
I’ll be at tomorrow night’s events (critics + Tweetfilm) and I’m running an event on Wed at 9pm at Rue Bebelons, about short stories. You should come! I’ll also be at the book launch.
Hi Angela,
It’s great to find another Aussie writer! Awesome.
I am gladly following and will be looking forward to your upcoming posts..
Have a lovely day!
Subhan Zein
Hi Subhan, lovely to ‘meet’ you! Thanks for reading.
Impressive resume Angela! I really enjoy reading your reviews and discoveries of Australian literature. I’ve landed in Melbourne a few months ago and it really helps to follow someone who knows her subject that well! I’m fond of literature in general but since I live in this wonderful country, I’ve decided to promote Australian literature to French people (http://lekoalalit.wordpress.com). Hope I can get my little blog to be as good as yours!
Cheers!
Angélique
Hi Angélique! Wow, I’m so glad a blog like yours exists. Unfortunately at this stage I can only read it through a Google translator. I’ve been to France twice and I’d love to properly learn French one day and be able to read Camus in the original language. I’d love to learn German someday too. Thank you for promoting Australian literature to a French audience. If I can ever help with anything, let me know. Angela
You’re right, reading an author in his native language is a different experience! Thanks for you enthousiasm! Angelique
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Enjoyed todays session will hopefully be blogging soon!