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Marisa Wikramanayake

writer, journalist & editor ~ I help you tell stories.

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  • Events,  News

    What’s happening in February 2019

    January 29, 2019 /

    One month is nearly over. Here is what is happening with me in the next month. Freelancing course via Writers Victoria If you have not booked yet, book now for 20% off a spot (tickets are $20 to 45 AUD) at the online webinar on freelancing that I am running through Writers’ Victoria on Feb 4. It’s online, you don’t need to get out of bed and its affordable and you may learn some cool new tips and tricks and ideas. Telling Tales at Women In Media Victoria Straight after that on Feb 11, I will be at the Metropolitan Hotel with several other awesome journalists, telling stories about our…

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    Where you will find me in October 2018

    October 11, 2018

    Freelancing panel at IPEd 2017 The cheat sheet/summary notes for the freelancing panel

    September 14, 2017

    The Writing Calendar: June 2016 Your one stop shop for all the upcoming writing events & deadlines in Perth and WA in June 2016

    June 9, 2016
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    Blog,  News

    Why I am resurrecting my Patreon account

    January 14, 2019 /

    Some of you may have already known this via social media or the mailing list. I have restarted my Patreon account. For $1 per month you can read the draft of my crime fiction book Gin & Tonic as I write it, start to finish, with two posts per month. The first one went live yesterday and they are scheduled up until mid July with more to come because I have a ton of pages of scribble to type up. For some of you, this is not your thing at all. You want to know what I do via the blog or the newsletter but you are not really otherwise…

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    An update on Gin & Tonic

    January 24, 2019

    Where you will find me in October 2018

    October 11, 2018

    How do you tell a story?

    February 9, 2019
  • Blog,  News

    Happy 2019!

    January 7, 2019 /

    Marisa Wikramanayake discusses her plans for freelancing, journalism, editing and writing and MEAA in 2019.

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    Day 4: Freedom to write, freedom for writers Day 4 of the Inaugural 2018 KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    June 1, 2018

    An update on Gin & Tonic

    January 24, 2019
    City of Lights by Sammu on Flickr.

    Sri Lanka, December 2015 – February 2016

    December 5, 2015
  • Blog,  Events,  News

    Where you will find me in October 2018

    October 11, 2018 /

    You will hear my voice everywhere in October.

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    Day 2: A cat is here! Day 2 of the KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    May 30, 2018
    City of Lights by Sammu on Flickr.

    Sri Lanka, December 2015 – February 2016

    December 5, 2015

    Gin & Tonic update #2: I was so wrong! AKA #maricantmath

    February 7, 2019
  • Blog,  Editing,  Freelancing,  News,  Writing

    The NYWF-ty List

    October 11, 2018 /

    NYWF is National Young Writers Festival and this is the "NYWFty" ("nifty") list because it is truly nifty and is full of the resources the young writers were asking me and other people about at all the #NYWF2018 sessions over the past weekend.

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    An update on Gin & Tonic

    January 24, 2019
    Latest piece of research for the foundation fellowship: the book titled Police in Sri Lanka by Frank de Silva

    Foundation Fellowship update: a bit about Gin and Tonic

    January 12, 2018
    Workers in black t-shirts outside a Fairfax building with flags protesting job cuts and the takeover by channel nine as part of the union MEAA's campaign.

    January 2019 MEAA Monthly Update

    January 31, 2019
  • Events,  News

    I will be at National Young Writers Festival next week

    September 22, 2018 /

    National Young Writers Festival is held every year in the Pambalong people’s land in Awabakal Nation, in Newcastle, in northern New South Wales. What is National Young Writers Festival? It is part of This is Not Art which is a large emerging arts festival based in Newcastle. It runs for four days over the Labour Day weekend. It includes the National Young Writers Festival, CRACK X which is the performance art festival and Critical Animals which is a creative research symposium for those engaged with creative and experimental arts practices. This is Not Art takes place on the land of the Pambalong people of the Awabakal nation. The best thing about…

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    Freelancing panel at IPEd 2017 The cheat sheet/summary notes for the freelancing panel

    September 14, 2017

    Where you will find me in October 2018

    October 11, 2018

    The Writing Calendar: June 2016 Your one stop shop for all the upcoming writing events & deadlines in Perth and WA in June 2016

    June 9, 2016
  • Freelancing,  Journalism,  Mentoring,  News,  Writing

    Mentoring Cher Tan via Writers Victoria She writes better than I do so it is a tad bit strange for me

    September 13, 2018 /

    I am now a mentor with Writers Victoria. It is pretty cool. Let me explain. I am trying to become a mentor on the IPEd/CSE mentoring program which caters to just editors but at the moment, I am also now a mentor for Writers Victoria. Writers Victoria is a writing centre for the state of Victoria in Australia. They hold events, run workshops and so on but one of the services they offer is mentoring. The Writers Victoria mentoring scheme operates like this: you apply for mentoring and Writers Victoria assess your application. You also nominate someone you want to mentor you from the list of mentors on their website.…

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    How to network at an editors' conference

    January 14, 2013

    Mentoring: the why and the how of doing it

    December 6, 2013

    How do I figure out what to do?

    June 12, 2013
  • Events,  News

    Upcoming events in June 2018 AKA where you can find me this month

    June 6, 2018 /

    I am going to be rather tired this month. But that’s a good thing because you get to see me at several events during June. Check out the events page. Continuum Panels The very first one kicks off in two days time: So You Want To Be A Book Reviewer? This is an awesome panel at the Continuum Speculative Fiction Convention at the Jasper Hotel in Melbourne running from Friday 8 June to Monday 11 June. I am on it with Figgy and Elizabeth Fitzgerald and it starts at 5 pm on Friday. We will discuss how book reviewing changes depending on how you do it, what you need to…

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    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    Where have I been?

    May 5, 2013
    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    IPEd Conference 2017 is next week and guess who is going? Pssst. It will be me.

    September 6, 2017

    Crimescene WA & Real Scientists

    September 23, 2013
  • News

    Well at least the website is looking a bit snazzier

    May 25, 2018 /

    First of all, sorry about the radio silence on the website of late. The website was hacked and was down. It didn’t affect anyone who visits it – all it did was place pesky links all over the site. But it did take a while to sort out. I had to figure out exactly what had been tampered with. Right now, I am pretty sure I got everything but if you see anything strange, let me know. And then I decided to change the look of the site a bit more. I hope things are now easier to find on the site and that things are easier to read. So…

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    Editor’s notes for Formaldehyde are up!

    September 3, 2015
    Photo of car outside Thornlie Mosque in Perth. (c) Yahya Adel Ibrahim

    BREAKING: Perth mosque targeted with car bomb attack Worshippers safe with no one injured

    June 29, 2016

    Events you should be attending during the holiday season in 2013

    November 26, 2013
  • News

    Amanda Jay’s The Other One is a Fairway Literary Award finalist! Which means two of my authors have been shortlisted in a row.

    September 9, 2017 /

    Ok, first things first, who is Amanda Jay? Amanda Jay is a Sri Lankan writer – Amanda Jayatissa – who wrote a book titled The Other One. I edited it earlier this year and she decided to self publish it in both e-book and hard copy format. It’s not doing too badly sales wise. But yesterday she got the news that it was shortlisted for the Fairway Literary Awards in the English Language section. Guess who got shortlisted for the Fairway literary awards? One of my authors! @mandysillybob I’m very proud of you. I’m so excited. You better win so that we get two in a row! #srilankanauthors #srilankanliterature #theotherone…

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    Introducing In Conversation With

    April 6, 2015

    Why my brain has no space and why I have no time

    May 11, 2016

    Diverse and need a writing group? Dinna fash yersel. We have you covered.

    October 23, 2016
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