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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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    March 20, 2014

    AWW 2013: Amanda Curtin's Inherited

    January 24, 2013

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    November 20, 2014
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    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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    February 21, 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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    January 16, 2014

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    January 31, 2013

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    February 13, 2014
  • 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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