Writing and Publishing
What a Swell Festival
SWELL SCULPTURE FESTIVAL: Last Saturday at Currumbin in Queensland was ‘just gorgeous’. The sun was shining the entire day, the…
Ilustrado: A Novel
Ilustrado, Miguel Sjuco’s first award winning novel is gripping from the first chapter. It weaves the story of a young…
Brisbane Festival – Past to present
The Brisbane Festival has come a long way since its very early days in the 60s when it was the…
Australian Business Arts Foundation Awards (Vic)
AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS ARTS FOUNDATION: On Monday night at the Sofitel Grand Ballroom in Melbourne the eight Victorian winners of the…
Melbourne Writers Festival Day 10 Crims and Creepy
MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL: The last day of the Melbourne Writers Festival, 10 days of talking, listening, and word related creativity…
Melbourne Writers Festival: Journalism Conference
MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL: New News was a two-day conference on the ‘Future of Journalism’ being held as part of the…
Big Ideas for Young People
MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL: Ideas don’t get much bigger than the Big Bang, the Fermi Paradox and Gaia. These were just…
Containing Literary Magazines at the MWF
MELBOURNE WRITERS' FESTIVAL:You have to wonder what Melbourne’s literary magazine people were to make of Festival Director Steve Grimwade’s suggestion…
Melbourne Writers Festival: Day 2
MELBOURNE WRITERS CENTRE: Day 2 of the Festival and I was plunged into the wacky, the disturbed and the dysfunctional.
MWF: The 10th Davitt Awards of Chic Crime Writers
MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL: This was the first year that the Sisters in Crime’s Davitt Awards has been ‘embraced’ under the…