This year, along with Richard Holt, I'll be judging the joanne burns award for microfiction and prose poems, tied in with the Flashing the Square project during Melbourne Writers' Festival in August. First prize for a microfiction or prose poem is $300. The winning and shortlisted entries will be published in the Spineless Wonders annual … Continue reading Enter the joanne burns award: Flashing the Square
Angela Meyer
Perth Writers Festival 2014
I'm excited to be invited back to one of my favourite festivals, Perth Writers Festival, which runs from 20-23 Feb. I'm appearing in one event, chairing two others, and teaching a workshop on flash fiction. Hope to see some of you there? More details on my sessions: Sat 22 Feb 10 am Grand Allusions (free, … Continue reading Perth Writers Festival 2014
Review of Janet Frame’s In the Memorial Room for The Australian
Janet Frame is one of my all-time favourite authors. Her writing is surprising, absurd, knowing, funny, sad, dark, moving, imaginative and honest. She was an incredibly hard-working writer, often having to work in uncomfortable or strange conditions (while overcoming much personal tragedy). I've read quite a few of her novels; plus her short fiction, her … Continue reading Review of Janet Frame’s In the Memorial Room for The Australian
Amsterdam
My travel story/memoir 'Amsterdam' won the Australian Festival of Travel Writing 500 word short story comp and was published in the April issue of The Victorian Writer. Writers Vic have kindly allowed me to reproduce the story here. I hope you enjoy it. Amsterdam My last week in Europe. All the dorms at the hostel are full, … Continue reading Amsterdam
Explaining myself and my many hats
I was recently asked to write a blog post for Collaboration, the blog of the Book Industry Collaborative Council (BICC), explaining what I do and how I came to be involved in so many different facets of the book industry. It took me a while, as it felt strange to 'explain myself'! If you are curious … Continue reading Explaining myself and my many hats
New flash fiction
Greetings from post-blizzard New York City! I've really been getting into writing flash fiction, or micro-fiction, lately. It's fun to try to give a strong impression of a scene, a story, in few words. And other people seem to like my super short pieces too. Seizure has just launched a flash fiction section of its website, Flashers, … Continue reading New flash fiction
LiteraryMinded’s fifth blog anniversary spectacular! (part five)
Terri-ann White asks: 'How often does a new writer blow your mind? Can this still happen when you are doing it as a full-on venture?' Often it's not a new writer but someone who is new to me. For example, I was just blown away by The Forrests by Emily Perkins, and now I want to read all of her books. … Continue reading LiteraryMinded’s fifth blog anniversary spectacular! (part five)
LiteraryMinded’s fifth blog anniversary spectacular! (part four)
Amy Espeseth asks: 'Has/how has your fiction writing changed since you started LiteraryMinded?' and John (Musings of a Literary Dilettante) asks: 'how has reviewing books helped your own creative writing?' Five years of regular writing—fiction and nonfiction—has made me a better writer. I hope I keep getting better. Five years of reading, close reading and reviewing, has … Continue reading LiteraryMinded’s fifth blog anniversary spectacular! (part four)
LiteraryMinded’s fifth blog anniversary spectacular! (part three)
Katy McDevitt asks: 'I’d love to know what your "big-picture" plans are for the blog—will you be blogging a book, for example?' I don't think I'll ever blog a book, that only really works for established authors like Max Barry (as with his novel Machine Man.) Video content is something I've been wanting to do for ages … Continue reading LiteraryMinded’s fifth blog anniversary spectacular! (part three)
LiteraryMinded’s fifth blog anniversary spectacular! (part two)
See part one and what this is all about here! Glen Hunting asks: 1) How did you become a Bowie fan, and what is your favourite Bowie song? How I came to love Bowie is explained in detail in this post but in short, I was in year 12 when I connected with his music, his … Continue reading LiteraryMinded’s fifth blog anniversary spectacular! (part two)
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