Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • Writing

    It’s one day to NaNoWriMo people.

    October 31, 2016 / No Comments

    Thinking of doing NaNoWriMo this year? Did you only just realise that it was one week away? Don't worry, I have something that can help you plan for it.

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    The Writers' Cabins at KSP (c) Writers Bloc

    Day 1: Home on my back, home where there is a bed

    May 30, 2018
    KSP cat by Ashleigh Hardcastle via KSP Writers Centre

    Day 2: A cat is here!

    May 30, 2018
    My desk in Phillips cabin at the KSP Writers Centre (c) Marisa Wikramanayake

    Day 3: So many emotions

    May 31, 2018
  • Events,  Updates,  Writing

    Diverse and need a writing group?

    October 23, 2016 / No Comments

    There is a writing group starting up for diverse people in Perth who want to write and take part in NaNoWriMo - if you want in, then read on.

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    Freelancing panel at IPEd 2017

    September 14, 2017
    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    Where have I been?

    May 5, 2013

    6 May 2013: MediaPass Student Industry Day

    April 16, 2013
  • IPEd Con 2013,  Projects

    The Rockstar Freelance Lifestyle

    April 10, 2013 / No Comments

    Speakers/Presenters: Sarah J H Fletcher, Abigail Nathan, Patrick Horneman, Karen Strain, Dinesh Aggarwal and Marisa Wikramanayake The idea originally came about via a Twitter discussion between Sarah, Abigail and I. We had met at Sydney in 2011 where Abigail had the both equally pleasurable and painful experience of helping to plan a conference and I was about to embark on it myself. But then there was much waving of hands. We wanted to make it fun as well as helpful. And I ran into Patrick Horneman at the MediaPass Student Industry days for journalism graduates and students where I was expounding on freelancing as a journalist and he was expounding…

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    Rapping for the 6th IPEd National Editors' Conference, 2013

    November 14, 2012

    Interview with Nury Vittachi on the 6th IPEd National Editors' Conference 2013

    March 2, 2013

    What do you mean there is a conference in four days' time?

    April 6, 2013
  • IPEd Con 2013,  Projects

    The final #ipedcon2013 Program!

    April 6, 2013 / 4 Comments

    Today we got to see the final #ipedcon2013 program. This is what lucky delegates will find in their bags on Thursday next week! It’s another reminder that this is actually happening. It’s still a bit hard to believe. – Marisa Wikramanayake, Convenor

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    How to network at an editors' conference

    January 14, 2013

    Interview with Nury Vittachi on the 6th IPEd National Editors' Conference 2013

    March 2, 2013

    The Rockstar Freelance Lifestyle

    April 10, 2013
  • IPEd Con 2013,  Projects

    What do you mean there is a conference in four days' time?

    April 6, 2013 / 1 Comment

    About two years ago I put my hand up to be conference convenor for the 6th IPEd National Editors Conference in Perth in 2013. We are now a mere four days away from the event and no one on the committee can quite figure out how we got here and where all the time went. Is everything done? Is everything ready? Well, yes, it is. Don’t worry. On that front we are fine. On the emotional side of things? Well, we are not so sure. As a committee we were so focused on making sure that everything was ready that it has only just hit us that we should be…

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    Interview with Nury Vittachi on the 6th IPEd National Editors' Conference 2013

    March 2, 2013

    Rapping for the 6th IPEd National Editors' Conference, 2013

    November 14, 2012

    How to network at an editors' conference

    January 14, 2013
  • Events,  IPEd Con 2013,  Journalism,  Literary Journalism,  Projects,  Updates

    Interview with Nury Vittachi on the 6th IPEd National Editors' Conference 2013

    March 2, 2013 / 2 Comments

    [wpcol_2third id=”” class=”” style=””]So who exactly is Nury Vittachi? Well, apart from being a crime fiction writer and a keynote at the 6th IPEd National Editors’ Conference here in Perth in April 2013, I’ll let him do the talking: Nury Vittachi in a nutshell? A small, bald Asian writer who was born on earth and still spends a fair bit of time there.  Yes, so just so you know,  he’s also exceptionally funny. Writers are cool, right? Yes, but only because few of us earn enough money to pay our heating bills. Why does he want to come to the conference? Why bother? Well, we asked him to – some of…

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    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

    Crimescene WA & Real Scientists

    September 23, 2013

    How do you tell a story?

    February 9, 2019
  • Freelancing,  IPEd Con 2013,  Projects

    How to network at an editors' conference

    January 14, 2013 / 3 Comments

    Or any other conference really. And by network, I mean meet, chatter, gossip with, not just pop up, deliver your 15 word elevator speech, exchange cards and dash off again. And for those who are still a bit behind, this is the 6th National IPEd Editors’ Conference we are discussing which will be held in Perth in Fremantle in April 2013. In about three months’ time in other words. Before the conference (one is assuming you have already registered for it): Find the program – I have made it easy for you, it’s here. Check out the list of who will be there as speakers and presenters for each session.…

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    For the confused author/editor: Style sheets vs Style guides

    June 7, 2013
    Top down shot of two people sitting across from each other a table having coffee with just their arms and cups in view

    10 Important Things You Need To Know About Finding A Mentor

    January 14, 2021
    art coffee business money

    Three important stories I wrote in 2021 as a freelance journalist

    February 15, 2022
  • Updates

    2013's very odd resolution list

    January 4, 2013 / 2 Comments

    This being the start of 2013, of course everyone is talking about New Year Resolutions. In fact, come December 1st everyone starts ruminating on this topic. And then of course there is a lot of angst over what one hasn’t done yet and that horrible nagging feeling that somehow you are running out of time to do X, Y and Z and therefore be happy. So in the interests of preserving some sanity here, because let’s be honest, me being me, I have very little sanity or so people tell me, let’s do this differently. What was 2012 like? Well, lets see. It was unexpectedly social at points – in…

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    Marisa Wikramanayake will be appearing at two sessions at the Digital Writers Festival this year.

    I’m in the Digital Writers Festival this year!

    October 28, 2016
    Marisa Wikramanayake will be appearing at two sessions at the Digital Writers Festival this year.

    I am now on Patreon

    December 4, 2015

    The Defying Doomsday Anthology

    April 12, 2015
  • carbon dioxide capture and storage
    Projects,  Science journalism

    Live Tweet: The National Carbon Capture & Storage Conference, Perth

    October 22, 2012 / 3 Comments

    I am reporting on the National Carbon Capture & Storage Conference in Perth (part of National CCS Week) for Science Network WA. I am hoping to curate all the tweets live from the conference in this post so if it works and you cannot follow the hashtag #ccsconference then check back here and follow the conversation below. I am also hoping to live blog the event and I will add the  twitter feed to the end of any posts I do. this is very much an experiment so cross your fingers!   Tweets about “#ccsconference”

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    Drive Me To Distraction by Caitlyn Nicholas

    Caitlyn Nicholas' Drive Me To Distraction

    February 21, 2013

    Kangaroo fossils give insights into changes in biodiversity

    September 16, 2010

    How to network at an editors' conference

    January 14, 2013
  • 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
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