Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • Events,  Updates

    What’s happening in February 2019

    January 29, 2019 / No Comments

    One month is nearly over. Here is what is happening with me in the next month. Freelancing course via Writers Victoria If you have not booked yet, book now for 20% off a spot (tickets are $20 to 45 AUD) at the online webinar on freelancing that I am running through Writers’ Victoria on Feb 4. It’s online, you don’t need to get out of bed and its affordable and you may learn some cool new tips and tricks and ideas. Telling Tales at Women In Media Victoria Straight after that on Feb 11, I will be at the Metropolitan Hotel with several other awesome journalists, telling stories about our…

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    July 2016 Writing Calendar

    July 1, 2016

    Freelancing panel at IPEd 2017

    September 14, 2017
    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
  • Events,  Updates

    Upcoming events in June 2018

    June 6, 2018 / No Comments

    I am going to be rather tired this month. But that’s a good thing because you get to see me at several events during June. Check out the events page. Continuum Panels The very first one kicks off in two days time: So You Want To Be A Book Reviewer? This is an awesome panel at the Continuum Speculative Fiction Convention at the Jasper Hotel in Melbourne running from Friday 8 June to Monday 11 June. I am on it with Figgy and Elizabeth Fitzgerald and it starts at 5 pm on Friday. We will discuss how book reviewing changes depending on how you do it, what you need to…

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    IPEd 2017: Workshops, whirlwinds and welcome

    September 13, 2017

    Where you will find me in October 2018

    October 11, 2018

    Diverse and need a writing group?

    October 23, 2016
  • 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

    Events you should be attending during the holiday season in 2013

    November 26, 2013
    365/333 The Oliver Standard Visible Writer No 3 by Rachel via Flickr

    July 2016 Writing Calendar

    July 1, 2016
  • Journalism,  Real Scientists,  Science journalism

    53 free ways for science journalists to brush up on their science… and counting

    November 25, 2013 / No Comments

    This is a list of FREELY AVAILABLE basic science primers, courses and videos that science journalists can take to brush up on their beats/niches/topics of interest. NOTE 1: MOOCS = Massive open online courses = free, short, online, provided by universities to give you a primer in the basics of a scientific topic of study. Both MOOCs and the Coursera courses will use Youtube videos so don’t eliminate them on that basis. NOTE 2: Coursera courses vary in length and whether you get a certificate at the end and are offered at different times so some of the ones listed below may drop off and on again depending on when…

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    Kerry Greenwood's Unnatural Habits

    January 3, 2013

    AWW 2013: Marj McRae's Not A Man

    January 10, 2013
    Untitled by Hamed Saber via Flickr

    My latest journalism work for Curtin

    September 1, 2013
  • 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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    How do I figure out what to do?

    June 12, 2013

    Freelancing panel at IPEd 2017

    September 14, 2017

    How to get started in journalism

    November 29, 2013
  • Journalism,  Projects,  Science journalism

    Pressure probe paves pathway for plant research

    March 16, 2011 / 2 Comments

    Date published: 15th March 2010 Publication: Science Network WA Editor: Jason Boudville Author: Marisa Wikramanayake Title: Pressure probe paves pathway for plant research Link to full article: Pressure probe paves pathway for plant research

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    Big Bang confusion

    March 16, 2011

    Why journalists risk their lives

    October 14, 2019

    Mentoring: the why and the how of doing it

    December 6, 2013
  • Journalism,  Projects,  Science journalism

    Big Bang confusion

    March 16, 2011 / 1 Comment

    Date published: 10th March 2011 Publication: Science Network WA Editor: Jason Boudville Author: Marisa Wikramanayake Title: Big bang confusion Link to full article: Big bang confusion Excerpt: THE expansion of the universe does not work the way we expect it to, according to Dr. Tamara Davis, astrophysicist at the School of Mathematics and Physics from the University of Queensland. Dr Davis presented a seminar at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), at UWA last week, and discussed common misconceptions about the expansion of the universe.

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    A real bookshop by Elsie esq via Flickr

    So You Want To Be A Book Reviewer Panel at Continuum 2018

    June 15, 2018

    Designated Director Designate designates direction for marine research

    March 24, 2011
    Annuncia Il Suicidio In Chat, Lo Incitano e Si Impicca In Diretta Su Skype via Hot Gossip Italia on Flickr

    Protected: How to interview people via Skype video

    April 2, 2015
  • Journalism,  Science journalism

    Nanotechnology could revolutionise stroke treatments

    August 27, 2010 / 1 Comment

    Marisa Wikramanayake's article for Science Network WA on Xuan Le's research into polymer drug deliver for stroke treatments using nanoparticles made of pHEMA instead of PLGA.

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    Profile: Amanda Curtin and world weaving

    May 29, 2013

    Alison Morton's Inceptio

    May 24, 2013

    AWW 2013: Interview with author Marj McRae

    January 17, 2013
  • Projects

    7 ways newspaper websites can succeed (or why Rupert Murdoch is horribly wrong)

    November 13, 2009 / No Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake writes about how newspapers can succeed online and why Rupert Murdoch is wrong to insist that Google not index The Australian's website.

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    iPhone app replaces doctors' logbooks

    October 28, 2010

    How to write a book: Part 1: Introduction

    September 25, 2013

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

    February 7, 2013
  • Updates

    Eureka Street has published my poetry

    November 4, 2009 / No Comments

    Eureka Street, an online magazine, based in Australia has just published Marisa Wikramanayake's poem "Manners".

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    Diverse and need a writing group?

    October 23, 2016

    Why my brain has no space and why I have no time

    May 11, 2016

    Happy Independence Day, Sri Lankans!

    February 4, 2013
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