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  • 365/333 The Oliver Standard Visible Writer No 3 by Rachel via Flickr
    Competitions,  Events,  Work Opportunity,  Writing

    July 2016 Writing Calendar

    July 1, 2016 / 5 Comments

    I decided to put this calendar for the month of June together on a whim. And then people loved it. So this is the monster list of everything even remotely writerly and literary that is going on in Perth and WA in the month of July 2016 from today onwards. So a few quick answers to questions: Will this list always be on this site? MEAA WA is keen to cross-post/host/something along those lines. This will also be cross-posted at Emily Paull‘s site. And possibly on DWOA once we tweak a few things. Can you compile a list for Victoria and Melbourne? Not at this point – no time to spare.…

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    February 6, 2013
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    Upcoming awards, residencies and other awesome things for writers

    May 2, 2016

    Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

    January 25, 2013
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews

    Marianne de Pierres' Glitter Rose

    February 6, 2014 / No Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake reviews author Marianne de Pierres collection Glitter Rose for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014

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    January 3, 2013

    The Australian Women Writers’ Challenge 2016

    January 11, 2016

    Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

    January 25, 2014
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    Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Literary Journalism,  Projects

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

    January 3, 2014 / No Comments

    In 2013, I joined the Australian Women Writers blog and project as the non-fiction contributing editor. This meant I also ended up taking the challenge of at least reading if not reviewing various books by female Australian authors. I read, I reviewed, I interviewed. Here's the round up of the books, the authors and the fun.

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    March 28, 2015
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    May 25, 2016

    Marianne de Pierres' Glitter Rose

    February 6, 2014
  • 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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    October 16, 2019

    AWW 2013: Interview with Amanda Curtin

    February 1, 2013
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    October 11, 2019
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Journalism,  Projects

    AWW 2013: Interview with Amanda Curtin

    February 1, 2013 / 1 Comment

    Amanda Curtin is the author of Inherited, which I reviewed a couple of weeks ago for the AWW 2013 challenge. I first met her through the Society of Editors (WA) on whose committee she had served for something like 16 years. Amanda is also taking part in the AWW 2013 challenge as a reader and as a reviewer in between editing, teaching and writing. Her next book is Elemental which is coming out in May so you can guess what I will be reading then. You can also read her answers to the Next Big Thing meme about Elemental here. Even better, if you think she is cool, you can meet her in…

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    May 25, 2016

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    April 2, 2015

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    January 25, 2013
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Projects

    AWW 2013: Amanda Curtin's Inherited

    January 24, 2013 / 4 Comments

      Precision is what comes to my mind, first. Amanda Curtin likes to write about connections, between person to person, between person and object, person and landscape. And about how those connections make us feel. Or why they are unique to us. Why they don’t make any sense or at least a different kind of sense to others. The back cover blurb for the book tells us:     Inherited brings together stories about the gifts and burdens we inherit from the world or from those we love, and what we, in turn, leave behind. Inherited is her latest collection of short stories. And every word in each story belongs…

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    February 7, 2013

    AWW 2013: Interview with Amanda Curtin

    February 1, 2013
  • Book Reviews

    Book Review Published: Graham Greene's May We Borrow Your Husband?

    May 2, 2009 / 1 Comment

    Marisa Wikramanayake is a freelance writer and editor based in Perth, Australia. In this entry, she reviews Graham Greene's May We Borrow Your Husband? published in 1967. Marisa has been blogging since 1998 and she is currently writing her second novel, a historical work, a poetry collection and a collection of the best work from the Perth Diary columns that she writes for the weekly Sunday Leader newspaper. When she isn't too tired from all that she reviews music for RTR and books for Compendium. Then she plays with the cat and plays drums in an indie rock band.

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    January 16, 2014

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    May 24, 2013

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