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Marisa Wikramanayake

writer, journalist & editor ~ I help you tell stories.

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  • KSP cat by Ashleigh Hardcastle via KSP Writers Centre
    Blog,  Writing

    I hit 10,000 words! Days 5, 6 & 7 of the Inaugural 2018 KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    June 4, 2018 /

    I suppose I gave it away in the title but oh my God! 10,000 words! Here’s what happened on each day. Day 5 was the Friday. Nothing got done on Friday. I was really exhausted. My sleeping patterns were out of whack and I was trying to fix my ear issue. I thought I could go out to meet my union colleagues and friends for drinks and come back and write. The drinks part happened and was fun but the writing part did not happen. So I had zero words for Friday. I had about four to five thousand words at this point to write in order to hit 10,000…

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    Day 1: Home on my back, home where there is a bed Day 1 of the 2018 KSP-Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    May 30, 2018
    Workers in black t-shirts outside a Fairfax building with flags protesting job cuts and the takeover by channel nine as part of the union MEAA's campaign.

    January 2019 MEAA Monthly Update

    January 31, 2019

    What is a typical day for a journalist?

    October 16, 2019
  • Katherine Susannah Pritchard and her typewriter (c) Marisa Wikramanayake
    Blog,  Writing

    Day 4: Freedom to write, freedom for writers Day 4 of the Inaugural 2018 KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    June 1, 2018 /

    Day 4 already. Well, nothing was going to happen on Day 1 given how tired and jetlagged I was. Today, most of the day was pretty boring. I had not slept well the night before. So the day was full of waking, sleeping, doing things I needed to do like eat and so on. I thought about the book a lot. And then I did my makeup, changed, called an Uber and went to see my friend Vicki Laurie interview Peter Greste at the WA State Library. So three things happened today on Day 4: Peter Greste pleasantly surprised me. I was very happy about that. Thank you Peter Greste.…

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    October 14, 2019

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    February 28, 2019
  • My desk in Phillips cabin at the KSP Writers Centre (c) Marisa Wikramanayake
    Blog,  Writing

    Day 3: So many emotions Day 3 of the Inaugural 2018 KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    May 31, 2018 /

    Day 3 and I am just grateful. I didn’t get to sleep until five am because I was just so thrilled that I had met my goal. You get a high after you write and type everything in. But I did sleep in bursts till about noon. I would wake up, do some work related things, sleep a bit, write a bit and so on. I woke up at noon and went over to the main house and the office to meet Shannon who is the director here at KSP Writers Centre. I gave her some things from Sri Lanka and she offered to do a pharmacy run for me.…

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    February 21, 2019

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    March 14, 2019

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    October 11, 2018
  • KSP cat by Ashleigh Hardcastle via KSP Writers Centre
    Blog,  Writing

    Day 2: A cat is here! Day 2 of the KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    May 30, 2018 /

    Day 2 and I woke up joyful today. Joyful because it was such a wonderful thought that I could write and everyone was going to be mindful of that. That no one would disturb me, no one would interrupt me, no one would think to themselves “She is free – let’s get a hold of her.” Also annoyance because my article was overdue and I needed to get it done so I knuckled down to do that while battling my ear going strange again. I made a mental note to see my doctor as soon as I get back to Melbourne. I figured out the A/C and I had a…

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    October 14, 2019
    Workers in black t-shirts outside a Fairfax building with flags protesting job cuts and the takeover by channel nine as part of the union MEAA's campaign.

    January 2019 MEAA Monthly Update

    January 31, 2019

    Where you will find me in October 2018

    October 11, 2018
  • Blog,  Freelancing,  Journalism,  Writing

    Frequently Asked Questions About Becoming A Freelance Writer: All the frequently asked questions about freelance writing you ever wanted to ask

    January 18, 2018 /

    Marisa Wikramanayake answers a few of the frequently asked questions about being a freelance writer.

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    Where you will find me in October 2018

    October 11, 2018
    I'm blogging this by Jhayne via Flickr (additional text by me)

    My top 10 posts in 2016 It is very interesting to see what you like to read

    January 20, 2017
    A mug full of coffee on an open planner

    Setting goals as a freelance journalist

    October 11, 2019
  • A picture of Khodayar Amini at the vigil for the one year anniversary of his death
    Investigative journalism,  Journalism,  Political journalism

    Khodayar Amini, Australia and asylum seekers, one year on How federal and state governments consistently failed a refugee seeking assistance

    October 19, 2016 /

    Khodayar would often listen to Ahmad Zahir's songs as he lay on his bed in Sydney. In 'Man Nagoyam' Ahmad Zahir sings about being like a caged bird that wants to be free. In Afghanistan, from 1996 to 2001, all musical instruments and music making bar the frame duff drum and religious singing had been banned by the Taliban. Khodayar ran from the Taliban after most of his family were killed. He ran from death as most humans would, to a place of perceived safety as most humans would. But he ran to Australia where he would end up feeling more caged and more in danger.

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    Scientology, R2-45s & my articles for 3rd Degree

    April 27, 2012
  • Events,  Writing

    The Writing Calendar: June 2016 Your one stop shop for all the upcoming writing events & deadlines in Perth and WA in June 2016

    June 9, 2016 /

    I decided to put this calendar for the month of June together on a whim. And then it took forever. 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 June from today onwards. Anyone who says the arts is dead in Perth is wrong – it was tiring to compile and it is tiring to even contemplate. IF this does prove useful to you, let me know if you want me to do one each month. IF so, then Emily Paull will be helping to collate info & we will be cross posting here with…

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    Workers in black t-shirts outside a Fairfax building with flags protesting job cuts and the takeover by channel nine as part of the union MEAA's campaign.

    MEAA Update for August 2018

    August 27, 2018
    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    IPEd Conference 2017 is next week and guess who is going? Pssst. It will be me.

    September 6, 2017

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

    March 2, 2013
  • Plan B by Sebastien Wiertz via Flickr
    News

    The writing plan for June

    June 3, 2016 /

    It’s June today. A June day, today, let’s say since June began the day before yesterday. On this June day my TBR is neither pile nor stack, it is a scatter instead, in bags, on shelves, across the floor, under laptops and beds. It’s also not To Be Read but rather like quantum, a mix between the two, some To Be Read but some also read already so To Be Reviewed. I need a plan. 

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    Diverse and need a writing group? Dinna fash yersel. We have you covered.

    October 23, 2016
    Photo of car outside Thornlie Mosque in Perth. (c) Yahya Adel Ibrahim

    BREAKING: Perth mosque targeted with car bomb attack Worshippers safe with no one injured

    June 29, 2016
    Plan B by Sebastien Wiertz via Flickr

    Upcoming awards, residencies and other awesome things for writers

    May 2, 2016
  • Competitions

    Competition: African-Australian short stories

    June 2, 2016 /

    The Centre for Stories in Perth, WA has a competition for African-Australian writers in WA. What is amazing and exciting about it is that if you win, I could be your mentor. And we only require 1000 words. So hop to it! Get writing! More info after the cut.

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    January 25, 2013

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    February 6, 2013

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    January 25, 2014
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews

    Marianne de Pierres' Glitter Rose

    February 6, 2014 /

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

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    November 20, 2014

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    February 13, 2014

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    April 2, 2015
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