Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • Book Reviews,  Updates

    The South Asian Women Writers Challenge 2014

    January 20, 2014 / No Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake writes about the latest reading and reviewing challenge: the South Asian Women Writers Challenge 2014

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    Cover of the book Portable curiosities by Julie Koh

    The best Australian books that 7 Australian writers loved in 2016

    January 2, 2017

    Australian Love Stories

    November 20, 2014

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

    March 26, 2011
  • Perth Diary Articles

    Cricket fever pitching rather feverishly low

    March 26, 2011 / 3 Comments

    It’s not quite the same thing. “Only 0.2% of Australians are watching.”  – Australian cricket fan on Twitter. Mind you, this was prior to the India/Australia match. And I have no idea if the figure is right. But it struck me as odd. Those of you who know me have no doubt been giggling over the status updates I have been making over the past few days relating to cricket. Tidbits of information like the fact that the West Indies have won the Cricket World Cup twice. That it started off in 1979. That sort of thing. It’s not that the Australians don’t like cricket, they do. But for some reason,…

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    Perth Diary is back!

    March 21, 2011
  • Journalism,  Projects,  Science journalism

    Designated Director Designate designates direction for marine research

    March 24, 2011 / 1 Comment

    Date published: 11th March 2011 Publication: Science Network WA Editor: Jason Boudville Author/Photographer: Marisa Wikramanayake Title: Oceans Institute announces new Director Link to full article: Oceans Institute announces new Director

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

    March 2, 2013

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

    November 25, 2013
    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
  • Projects

    List of Planet Sites To Submit Your RSS Feed To:

    March 19, 2009 / 1 Comment

    In this post, Marisa Wikramanayake lists all the "planets" (RSS feed aggregator sites) that she has found and discusses the benefits of submitting your website's RSS feed to the few that are relevant to your website's topic as a targeted marketing tool. Marisa Wikramanayake is a freelance writer and editor, based in Australia.

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    Australian Love Stories

    November 20, 2014

    An editor's take on crime fiction

    October 12, 2013

    The writing process, step by step

    April 27, 2011
  • Perth Diary Articles,  Updates

    Perth Diary: The Only Female Fisherman

    March 5, 2009 / 2 Comments

    The latest installment of Marisa Wikramanayake's column Perth Diary has been published in the Sri Lankan newspaper The Sunday Leader. The latest column is about the experience of fishing in Fremantle and was published on the 1st of March 2009.

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    Cricket fever pitching rather feverishly low

    March 26, 2011

    Perth Diary is back!

    March 21, 2011

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