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  • 365/333 The Oliver Standard Visible Writer No 3 by Rachel via Flickr
    Updates,  Writing

    Do you want a DWoA writing group?

    June 21, 2016 / No Comments

    I want to talk about writing groups today. As you may or may not already be aware, I do attend a regular writing session/group with two friends of mine every Friday. We sit in a bar, I write my book, they write their PhD theses and come four or five pm we have beer.

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    BREAKING: Perth mosque targeted with car bomb attack

    June 29, 2016
    Happy 2017! Fireworks by Prabhu Balakrishnan via Flickr

    Happy New Year!

    December 31, 2016
    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
  • A few right thinking men by Sulari Gentill
    Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews

    Sulari Gentill’s A Few Right Thinking Men

    June 6, 2016 / 1 Comment

    I grew up on a literary diet that had a healthy portion of crime fiction in it and these days if I see one crime novel that sparks my interest then the entire process of hunting down the whole series one by one begins. This is also one reason why I am so glad that the first book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series never fully grabbed me in the same way – I would still be trying to get through all of them decades later.

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    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    May 25, 2016

    Interview with Jane Rawson

    March 20, 2014

    AWW 2013: Interview with author Marj McRae

    January 17, 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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    False balance: A science journalism pitfall

    October 2, 2012

    How to tell if you are a writer

    September 11, 2013

    Living below the line

    May 20, 2011
  • Book Reviews,  Competitions,  Journalism,  Updates

    Real men do read – they just don't let the sexy, geek goddesses know.

    February 6, 2013 / 12 Comments

    Rob Kennedy, an Australian poet (and male for the purposes of this discussion) asked this question in a blog post recently: Do real men read books?* He had several issues with this question: What the hell constitutes a “real man” anyway? To which I nod my head furiously because yes, what the hell are we discussing when we talk about “real men”? What makes one man more “real” than the next, apart from the fact that maybe he isn’t some intangible figure in your brain…… moving on. The reason he asked the question in the first place was because he had found a lot of American based programs and websites…

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    Australian Love Stories

    November 20, 2014

    AWW 2013: Amanda Curtin's Inherited

    January 24, 2013

    AWW 2013: Marj McRae's Not A Man

    January 10, 2013
  • 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: What do we talk about?

    March 9, 2011
    Memories found via Brenda @WeHeartIt

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

    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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    Silent All These Years by prettyfreakjesper on DeviantArt

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    International Women's Day: "Woman"

    March 9, 2011
  • Silent All These Years by prettyfreakjesper on DeviantArt
    International Women's Day,  Projects

    International Women's Day: What do we talk about?

    March 9, 2011 / 3 Comments

      When the invitation was waved in front of my nose, to blog for International Women’s Day (if I hadn’t jumped in willingly, I am sure Janine Ripper would have twisted my arm or blackmailed me somehow), I was excited but I felt at a loss. I don’t think gender should be an issue – as in that it is such an accepted part of life that it ceases to be part of what identifies you unless you wish it to be. And so, I wondered, “What am I going to discuss?” especially as I see a lot of issues as being human issues,  complicated, yes, by gender inequality and…

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    Memories found via Brenda @WeHeartIt

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

    March 9, 2011

    International Women's Day: "Woman"

    March 9, 2011

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