Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews

    Marianne de Pierres' Glitter Rose

    February 6, 2014 / No Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake reviews author Marianne de Pierres collection Glitter Rose for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014

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    Jane Rawson's A Wrong Turn At The Office Of Unmade Lists

    January 16, 2014

    AWW 2013: Ann-Marie Priest's Great Writers, Great Loves

    January 31, 2013

    AWW 2013: Marion Halligan's Murder On The Apricot Coast

    February 7, 2013
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Competitions

    Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

    January 25, 2014 / 1 Comment

    Marisa Wikramanayake takes part in the Australia Day Book giveaway Blog Hop for 2014, giving away a choice of two books from the never ending giveaway pile.

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    AWW 2013: Marion Halligan's Murder On The Apricot Coast

    February 7, 2013

    Marianne de Pierres' Glitter Rose

    February 6, 2014

    Australian Love Stories

    November 20, 2014
  • Book Reviews,  Updates

    The South Asian Women Writers Challenge 2014

    January 20, 2014 / No Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake writes about the latest reading and reviewing challenge: the South Asian Women Writers Challenge 2014

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    AWW 2013: Ann-Marie Priest's Great Writers, Great Loves

    January 31, 2013
    Drive Me To Distraction by Caitlyn Nicholas

    Caitlyn Nicholas' Drive Me To Distraction

    February 21, 2013
    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    3 amazing Australian authors I read in 2016 and absolutely loved

    January 9, 2017
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews

    Jane Rawson's A Wrong Turn At The Office Of Unmade Lists

    January 16, 2014 / No Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake reviews Jane Rawson's A Wrong Turn At The Office Of Unmade Lists for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014.

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    Samantha Tidy's The Happiness Jar

    February 20, 2014

    Kerry Greenwood's Unnatural Habits

    January 3, 2013

    Introducing In Conversation With

    April 6, 2015
  • Uncategorized

    The Court Hotel, cowboys, complaints and the social media cover up

    January 10, 2014 / No Comments

    NOTE: The names of those who commented are blacked out in each screenshot for their privacy.  It started with an event that the Court Hotel, a well known GLBTIQ venue here in Perth, Australia, wanted to hold. It was a Wild West themed event with a lot of mentions of “Cowboys and Indians” which is inappropriate and racist towards those with Native American heritage. You can see the Google cached version of the Court Hotel’s website’s event prior to any changes here (let me know if it has disappeared) and here is the original image and the screenshot of the text. The Court Hotel promoted the event via Twitter, their…

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    Journalism & Editing Portfolio

    September 23, 2016
  • A real bookshop by Elsie esq via Flickr
    Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Literary Journalism,  Projects

    Capering criminally with the challenge: what I read for Australian Women Writers 2013

    January 3, 2014 / No Comments

    In 2013, I joined the Australian Women Writers blog and project as the non-fiction contributing editor. This meant I also ended up taking the challenge of at least reading if not reviewing various books by female Australian authors. I read, I reviewed, I interviewed. Here's the round up of the books, the authors and the fun.

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    Australian Love Stories

    November 20, 2014

    AWW 2013: Ann-Marie Priest's Great Writers, Great Loves

    January 31, 2013

    Robin Bower’s Beyond Home

    March 28, 2015
  • Updates

    2014 beckons

    January 1, 2014 / No Comments

    I don’t know what 2014 is the year of. Apart from being the Year of the Green Wood Horse. And apparently the International Year of Family Farming so please think about where your food and consumer goods come from and whether they are ethically and sustainably produced. But it is 2014 now. 2013 has gone. I was busy in 2013 and so it flew by fast. The editing conference is over and I can breathe again. In December you all nearly decimated my server by loving the How to tell if you are an editor post so much so thanks for that. Clearly humour wins you over. If you want…

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    Plan B by Sebastien Wiertz via Flickr

    Upcoming awards, residencies and other awesome things for writers

    May 2, 2016

    Five years!

    December 16, 2013

    Events you should be attending during the holiday season in 2013

    November 26, 2013

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