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  • 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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    April 6, 2015

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    March 20, 2014
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    May 25, 2016
  • 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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    Editor’s notes for Formaldehyde are up!

    September 3, 2015
    The MEAA regional journalism campaign logo - a bundle of newspapers with the words our communities our stories superimposed on top.

    How you can help regional papers from closing even if you live in the city.

    June 15, 2020
    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    Where have I been?

    May 5, 2013
  • Journalism,  Real Scientists,  Science journalism

    53 free ways for science journalists to brush up on their science… and counting

    November 25, 2013 / No Comments

    This is a list of FREELY AVAILABLE basic science primers, courses and videos that science journalists can take to brush up on their beats/niches/topics of interest. NOTE 1: MOOCS = Massive open online courses = free, short, online, provided by universities to give you a primer in the basics of a scientific topic of study. Both MOOCs and the Coursera courses will use Youtube videos so don’t eliminate them on that basis. NOTE 2: Coursera courses vary in length and whether you get a certificate at the end and are offered at different times so some of the ones listed below may drop off and on again depending on when…

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    February 9, 2019

    AWW 2013: Interview with author Marj McRae

    January 17, 2013

    Designated Director Designate designates direction for marine research

    March 24, 2011
  • Journalism,  Literary Journalism

    Profile: Amanda Curtin and world weaving

    May 29, 2013 / No Comments

    Amanda Curtin’s book Elemental will be officially launched tomorrow in Perth. It has been available for almost an entire month and I had the pleasure of interviewing her for this profile feature piece in April when I got sent a review copy in the mail. A book from Amanda Curtin in the mailbox is always a delight and a treat.   

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    Kerry Greenwood's Unnatural Habits

    January 3, 2013
  • Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013
    Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Events,  IPEd Con 2013,  Journalism,  Political journalism,  Projects,  Science journalism,  Updates

    Where have I been?

    May 5, 2013 / No Comments

    Recovering mostly. The conference is over. But the organisation part of it isn’t. There are accounts to be finalised and even now, still a lot of emails to answer. So let me digress to answer the most often asked question via email now: Conference proceedings will be posted on the website and you will all be emailed to be told when they get uploaded.  But what else have I been up to? Well, I have had a particularly weird and busy time of it and a lot of it has involved writing. So without further ado, here is the list: I have reviewed:  Amanda Curtin’s Elemental which will end up in…

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    Kerry Greenwood's Unnatural Habits

    January 3, 2013

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

    February 7, 2013

    AWW 2013: Interview with Amanda Curtin

    February 1, 2013
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Journalism,  Projects

    AWW 2013: Interview with Amanda Curtin

    February 1, 2013 / 1 Comment

    Amanda Curtin is the author of Inherited, which I reviewed a couple of weeks ago for the AWW 2013 challenge. I first met her through the Society of Editors (WA) on whose committee she had served for something like 16 years. Amanda is also taking part in the AWW 2013 challenge as a reader and as a reviewer in between editing, teaching and writing. Her next book is Elemental which is coming out in May so you can guess what I will be reading then. You can also read her answers to the Next Big Thing meme about Elemental here. Even better, if you think she is cool, you can meet her in…

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    Introducing In Conversation With

    April 6, 2015

    Marianne de Pierres' Glitter Rose

    February 6, 2014
    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    May 25, 2016
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Projects

    AWW 2013: Amanda Curtin's Inherited

    January 24, 2013 / 4 Comments

      Precision is what comes to my mind, first. Amanda Curtin likes to write about connections, between person to person, between person and object, person and landscape. And about how those connections make us feel. Or why they are unique to us. Why they don’t make any sense or at least a different kind of sense to others. The back cover blurb for the book tells us:     Inherited brings together stories about the gifts and burdens we inherit from the world or from those we love, and what we, in turn, leave behind. Inherited is her latest collection of short stories. And every word in each story belongs…

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    A real bookshop by Elsie esq via Flickr

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

    January 3, 2014

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

    January 31, 2013
    A few right thinking men by Sulari Gentill

    Sulari Gentill’s A Few Right Thinking Men

    June 6, 2016
  • Journalism,  Science journalism

    Want to help break a Guinness World Record?

    August 14, 2012 / No Comments

    If you’re in Perth, take a look at this article I wrote: http://sciencewa.net.au/topics/item/1623-perth-residents-ready-to-break-guinness-world-record/1623-perth-residents-ready-to-break-guinness-world-record? It’s National Science Week and instead of lectures, Curtin University is doing something different. Curtin is attempting to break a world record and not only do they need participants, they also need stewards to help them carry everything out. Check out the article and give them a ring.

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    February 9, 2019
    Cat asleep on a wall - Photo by Iván C. Fajardo on Unsplash

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    February 17, 2021
  • Photojournalism

    Equal Love Rally Perth 2012

    August 13, 2012 / 2 Comments

    It’s far sunnier than I expected on a Perth winter weekend morning as I enter Stirling Gardens formerly the Supreme Court Gardens. It’s an innocent bit of greenery in the middle of the city. On Saturday, 11 August 2012, it got taken over. And I was there to protest. And to photograph. Equal Love – it nearly sounds like something left over from the ’70s but this isn’t that old but neither is it exactly new. Across the world several countries have amended laws to allow people with alternative gender identities and sexual orientations, all sorts of civil rights including the right to marry. Eight years ago, the Federal government…

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    Photographing the Perth Royal Show 2012 and failing miserably…

    October 4, 2012
  • Science journalism

    Science Network WA Article Published 07/10/2009

    October 29, 2009 / 1 Comment

    Marisa Wikramanayake writes about Professor Andy Lee's latest research into the reduction of stroke risk by increased physical activity in the elderly for the Science Network WA.

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    Tips for being a science journalist

    December 14, 2013
    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    Where have I been?

    May 5, 2013

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