Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • Science journalism

    Tips for being a science journalist

    December 14, 2013 / 8 Comments

    A brief summary of my seminar (part of the UWA Science Communication Seminar series) on 6 August 2010.

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    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    Where have I been?

    May 5, 2013

    Foursquare for flora and fauna? The ClimateWatch smartphone app

    September 28, 2012

    iPhone app replaces doctors' logbooks

    October 28, 2010
  • Freelancing

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

    June 7, 2013 / 2 Comments

    What the hell is a style sheet?  Well, in computer lingo, it’s CSS or a cascading style sheet which tells you what everything on every HTML page of your website looks like design wise. It’s supposed to make it more efficient to create and design websites. But that’s not what you mean right?  No, it’s not. Say you are an author (fiction, non-fiction, corporate, government, whatever) and you send a document (your precious, your boss’ precious and so on) to an editor. And the editor sends the document back and a few others, one of which is this weird combination of the alphabet and square boxes. That little document is…

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    Marisa Wikramanayake works on a story as a journalist and in this post showing you how to write a freelance pitch

    How to write a freelance pitch to an editor

    September 17, 2021
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    Three important stories I wrote in 2021 as a freelance journalist

    February 15, 2022
    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
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Journalism,  Projects

    AWW 2013: Interview with author Marj McRae

    January 17, 2013 / 5 Comments

    Last week’s review for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2013 was Marj McRae’s Not A Man. This week, I got to ask Marj a few questions about her writing process and about the novel itself.

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    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    May 25, 2016
    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    Where have I been?

    May 5, 2013

    The Australian Women Writers’ Challenge 2016

    January 11, 2016
  • Journalism,  Science journalism

    National desalination research centre launched in Rockingham

    August 11, 2010 / 1 Comment

    National desalination research centre launched in Rockingham: Marisa Wikramanayake's article for Science Network WA on the launch of the National Centre for Excellence in Desalination (NCED)'s testing facility at Murdoch University's Rockingham campus and the announcement of their first twelve projects chosen via a funding round in June 2010 that raised $11.6 million AUD for desalination research. Click through to find the link to read the article at Science Network WA.

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    AWW 2013: Interview with Amanda Curtin

    February 1, 2013

    Interview with Jane Rawson

    March 20, 2014

    Salinity threatens freshwater mussels

    September 9, 2010
  • 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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    A conversation with Fay

    April 16, 2014

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

    March 2, 2013
    Fallon Michael's photo of eyeglasses on book beside macbook for Marisa Wikramanayake's blog post about their 2021 year in review

    My 2021 year in review – amazing goals success or failure?

    January 4, 2022

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