Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • Guest blogs

    The Freeline Blog Swap: Robert Pepper on anti-vaccination, pseudoscience and the anti-anti-science movement

    July 22, 2014 / No Comments

    Freeline is a group for Australian freelance journalists. And this is a blog swap started over email where journalists somehow try to write guest posts for each other’s blogs despite the difference in specialisations, niches and beats. This is Robert Pepper’s swap with me – 4WD for science and he owns this material. You can also read my post on my love affair with the Jeep Wrangler on Robert’s blog: ‘Life’s Too Short For Boring Cars’.  Freelance journalists are paradoxical people.  We love the freedom and independence that defines freelancing, yet our chosen profession is often lonely, interacting with the likes of editors only by fleeting email or hasty phone call.…

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

    January 16, 2014

    The Australian Women Writers’ Challenge 2016

    January 11, 2016

    So who won the Australia Day Book Giveaway?

    January 30, 2013
  • Projects,  Updates

    New project: Guys Read Gals

    February 18, 2013 / 1 Comment

    First off, I did not come up with the name. That was all Rob Kennedy‘s fault. Second, last I checked I am not a male member of the species so I am not actually an active participant – I am just there to make sure everything runs properly. And to carry a metaphorical whip so that the guys involved behave like the gentlemen that they are. So what is it? It’s a website. For men. To post reviews of the Australian female fiction authors they have read.  And for women and men. To contribute insightful articles, interviews and opinion pieces on the topics of men reading  and/or Australian female fiction…

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    How to tell if you are a writer

    September 11, 2013

    The Book of Unwritten Tales

    October 7, 2012

    Foursquare for flora and fauna? The ClimateWatch smartphone app

    September 28, 2012
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Competitions,  Projects,  Updates

    Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

    January 25, 2013 / 15 Comments

    So the lovely people at Book’d Out kickstarted this off. Basically each blog involved runs a competition of some sort and the point is to give away a book by an Australian author to a lucky winner or a book voucher or something like that. This means not only do I have to come up with the means by which you participate as a reader and I pick a winner but also what you will get if you do win. And it occurs to me that a book loved should be a book shared. And that I have some copies of my own book left. The competition starts: 25th January…

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    Marianne Delacourt’s Sharp Shooter

    April 2, 2015

    AWW 2013: Interview with author Marj McRae

    January 17, 2013

    AWW 2013: Amanda Curtin's Inherited

    January 24, 2013
  • Freelancing,  IPEd Con 2013,  Projects

    How to network at an editors' conference

    January 14, 2013 / 3 Comments

    Or any other conference really. And by network, I mean meet, chatter, gossip with, not just pop up, deliver your 15 word elevator speech, exchange cards and dash off again. And for those who are still a bit behind, this is the 6th National IPEd Editors’ Conference we are discussing which will be held in Perth in Fremantle in April 2013. In about three months’ time in other words. Before the conference (one is assuming you have already registered for it): Find the program – I have made it easy for you, it’s here. Check out the list of who will be there as speakers and presenters for each session.…

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    How to easily track pitches in Google Sheets as a freelance journalist

    January 7, 2021
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    My goals for 2022: making my freelancing work better for me

    January 18, 2022
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    Three important stories I wrote in 2021 as a freelance journalist

    February 15, 2022
  • Updates

    2013's very odd resolution list

    January 4, 2013 / 2 Comments

    This being the start of 2013, of course everyone is talking about New Year Resolutions. In fact, come December 1st everyone starts ruminating on this topic. And then of course there is a lot of angst over what one hasn’t done yet and that horrible nagging feeling that somehow you are running out of time to do X, Y and Z and therefore be happy. So in the interests of preserving some sanity here, because let’s be honest, me being me, I have very little sanity or so people tell me, let’s do this differently. What was 2012 like? Well, lets see. It was unexpectedly social at points – in…

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    Happy New Year!

    December 31, 2016
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    Sri Lanka, December 2015 – February 2016

    December 5, 2015
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    How much I made in 2021 as a freelancer

    January 25, 2022
  • carbon dioxide capture and storage
    Projects,  Science journalism

    Live Tweet: The National Carbon Capture & Storage Conference, Perth

    October 22, 2012 / 3 Comments

    I am reporting on the National Carbon Capture & Storage Conference in Perth (part of National CCS Week) for Science Network WA. I am hoping to curate all the tweets live from the conference in this post so if it works and you cannot follow the hashtag #ccsconference then check back here and follow the conversation below. I am also hoping to live blog the event and I will add the  twitter feed to the end of any posts I do. this is very much an experiment so cross your fingers!   Tweets about “#ccsconference”

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    How do I get started?

    April 20, 2011

    False balance: A science journalism pitfall

    October 2, 2012

    Inspiration (or is there a muse?)

    April 6, 2011
  • Updates

    I am the first result on Google!

    July 1, 2009 / 2 Comments

    Marisa discusses how she got her site to become number one in Google Search rankings, using information about her audience, the Google sitmape plugin, meta data and keywords, Google Maps and social media networks.

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    My latest journalism work for Curtin

    September 1, 2013

    New project: Guys Read Gals

    February 18, 2013

    The Defying Doomsday Anthology

    April 12, 2015
  • Updates

    A Blog Carnival's In Town:

    March 29, 2009 / No Comments

    First off, a blog carnival is a regular round up of weblog posts/entries/articles on a particular topic. This week, the lovely folk at thursdaybram.com have accepted two of my posts for their 61st round of articles on the Business of Freelance Writing. The two posts in question are Parts 1 and 2 of the list of things writers/freelancers need to know and both are on this site. Blog carnivals are great ways to get a lot of attention for the writing you publish online. You can submit your articles to blog carnivals by going to BlogCarnivals.com or else you have to wait for someone to notice you. Cheers, Marisa.

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    The Defying Doomsday Anthology

    April 12, 2015

    Events you should be attending during the holiday season in 2013

    November 26, 2013

    The Sri Lankan "war generation" and the books that "made" us.

    March 26, 2011

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