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

    January 31, 2013 / No Comments

    I am not entirely sure where I picked it up from. But I live in Fremantle where there are three Elizabeth Bookshops and a plethora of other bookstores and secondhand bibliophile’s havens (or heavens if you prefer). Its prior home could have been anywhere but most probably had an address within the Fremantle post code. But I like writing and I like anything to do with Virginia Woolf so of course it somehow came home with me. Priest’s idea is not a new one. People often comment and ask writers which character in book X is based on them. Readers often assume that what is discussed in a novel, though…

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