Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • 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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    Capering criminally with the challenge: what I read for Australian Women Writers 2013

    January 3, 2014

    The Australian Women Writers’ Challenge 2016

    January 11, 2016

    Samantha Tidy's The Happiness Jar

    February 20, 2014
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Competitions,  Projects,  Updates

    So who won the Australia Day Book Giveaway?

    January 30, 2013 / 4 Comments

    Who won the haul? That’s what you want to know right? What haul? This haul! Which I have to say is a pretty amazing haul. But what I found amazing were your comments. Thank you guys. It was really interesting to see what your favourite poems were and the reasons why as well. So while my cat ponders which one of you is lucky enough to win (or is distasteful enough that she doesn’t swallow the piece of paper your name is written on), let’s see some of your poetry favourites. KathArine (who does spell her name like that) kicks us off with Robert Frost: “Nature’s first green is gold,…

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    AWW 2013: Marj McRae's Not A Man

    January 10, 2013
    A real bookshop by Elsie esq via Flickr

    Capering criminally with the challenge: what I read for Australian Women Writers 2013

    January 3, 2014

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

    January 31, 2013
  • Updates

    I am in the This Is Oz ad campaign!

    November 1, 2009 / 5 Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake blogs about being included in the print ad campaign against homophobia for This Is Oz.

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    The Sri Lankan "war generation" and the books that "made" us.

    March 26, 2011
    Happy 2017! Fireworks by Prabhu Balakrishnan via Flickr

    Happy New Year!

    December 31, 2016

    A conversation with Fay

    April 16, 2014

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