Marisa Wikramanayake

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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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    AWW 2013: Interview with author Marj McRae

    January 17, 2013

    AWW 2013: Amanda Curtin's Inherited

    January 24, 2013
    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    May 25, 2016
  • Events,  Freelancing,  Updates

    6 May 2013: MediaPass Student Industry Day

    April 16, 2013 / No Comments

    Apparently I am “amazing”. So amazing in fact that the Walkley team have asked me to be part of the Young Journalists Panel this year at the MediaPass Student Industry Day. Where: State Library of WA, Perth When: 6 May 2013 – 9 am onwards Who else will be there? Colleen Egan is the keynote speaker for a start and Patrick Horneman will be there as well. Who can attend: Anyone who is a journalism or communications student at undergraduate/postgraduate level. How: Sign up here. Cost: FREE. What will I be speaking on? My experiences as a freelancer and why I got into it and how and then answering questions.…

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

    IPEd Conference 2017 is next week and guess who is going?

    September 6, 2017
    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.

    MEAA Update for August 2018

    August 27, 2018

    How do you tell a story?

    February 9, 2019
  • Updates

    Happy Independence Day, Sri Lankans!

    February 4, 2013 / No Comments

    Today is Independence Day in Sri Lanka. A commonly held idea is that most of our problems as a nation come from the colonists and so that therefore today is a day to celebrate our freedom from being a colony. I say that if we like to think we are an island paradise then we should also accept the other side of that where humans desire to possess beautiful things and that can occasionally lead to disaster – we had both peace and awesomeness and also wars and other horrifying things long before the Europeans showed up. So I think we should celebrate today accepting everything we are as a…

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    How much I made in 2021 as a freelancer

    January 25, 2022

    The Defying Doomsday Anthology

    April 12, 2015

    Despite COVID-19 I am still here

    May 26, 2020
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Competitions,  Projects,  Updates

    So who won the Australia Day Book Giveaway?

    January 30, 2013 / 4 Comments

    Who won the haul? That’s what you want to know right? What haul? This haul! Which I have to say is a pretty amazing haul. But what I found amazing were your comments. Thank you guys. It was really interesting to see what your favourite poems were and the reasons why as well. So while my cat ponders which one of you is lucky enough to win (or is distasteful enough that she doesn’t swallow the piece of paper your name is written on), let’s see some of your poetry favourites. KathArine (who does spell her name like that) kicks us off with Robert Frost: “Nature’s first green is gold,…

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    Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

    January 25, 2014
    A real bookshop by Elsie esq via Flickr

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

    January 3, 2014

    The Australian Women Writers’ Challenge 2016

    January 11, 2016
  • 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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    So who won the Australia Day Book Giveaway?

    January 30, 2013

    AWW 2013: Marj McRae's Not A Man

    January 10, 2013

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

    February 7, 2013
  • Projects

    World Mental Health Day Guest post for Emergen

    October 10, 2012 / 4 Comments

    Today is World Mental Health Day. And so I wrote a guest post on depression for the Emergen networking group. Ask someone you care about how they are today. 🙂  

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    Kerry Greenwood's Unnatural Habits

    January 3, 2013

    AWW 2013: Marj McRae's Not A Man

    January 10, 2013

    How to write a book: Part 5: Structure (or Chapter and verse)

    April 13, 2011
  • Poetry,  Projects

    Weekly news roundup AND Britain's National Poetry Day… combined!

    October 5, 2012 / No Comments

    Note: News events listed below are as they happened on the morning of Thursday, 03 Oct 2012 prior to debates, apologies and anything else really exciting. It takes awhile to think up rhymes. I give students a news quiz each week and today I couldn’t decide whether to post the quiz and some of the odd answers or a poem for National Poetry Day in Britain (despite the fact that I am neither located there or a citizen) so you guys got both. Enjoy. If anyone can come up with a title that would be awesome. —- This week the Health Department got their anatomy wrong, They mislabeled the ovaries…

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    On pens, paper and meaning

    November 17, 2012
  • Perth Diary Articles

    Cricket fever pitching rather feverishly low

    March 26, 2011 / 3 Comments

    It’s not quite the same thing. “Only 0.2% of Australians are watching.”  – Australian cricket fan on Twitter. Mind you, this was prior to the India/Australia match. And I have no idea if the figure is right. But it struck me as odd. Those of you who know me have no doubt been giggling over the status updates I have been making over the past few days relating to cricket. Tidbits of information like the fact that the West Indies have won the Cricket World Cup twice. That it started off in 1979. That sort of thing. It’s not that the Australians don’t like cricket, they do. But for some reason,…

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    Perth Diary is back!

    March 21, 2011
  • International Women's Day,  Projects

    International Women's Day: "Woman"

    March 9, 2011 / 2 Comments

    “Woman”. That word scares me a bit. I don’t know what it means to be a woman. No, wait. Scratch that. I do know what it means to be a woman. But I don’t fit. Years ago, I was writing a weekly column for a newspaper. One day, someone asked me if I was a feminist. The question stumped me. I knew I was all for equality but I had never really bothered with the concept of feminism before. I knew the very definition of it had altered so fast over three decades. But this was a good idea for a column and hey, those were in short supply. So I…

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    International Women's Day: And the backlash has started…

    March 9, 2011
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    International Women's Day: What do we talk about?

    March 9, 2011
  • Memories found via Brenda @WeHeartIt
    International Women's Day,  Projects

    International Women's Day: And the backlash has started…

    March 9, 2011 / No Comments

    Note: This is my second attempt at writing this so it isn’t as wonderful as the first one was. Also these articles were originally posted as part of the blogging challenge for International Women’s Day on Emergen. It’s almost half past eight. Most of my friends have now woken up and headed off to work and have logged on to at the very least wish each other “Happy IWD day”. I’d like to think that they knew about the date and event because I’ve been harping on about it on FB for awhile. But as with anyone supporting any cause, there is a backlash. There have been a few negative…

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    International Women's Day: "Woman"

    March 9, 2011
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    International Women's Day: What do we talk about?

    March 9, 2011
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