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  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Literary Journalism

    Watch “Emily Paull in conversation with Liz Byrski” on YouTube

    July 27, 2016 / No Comments

    A week or so ago, I filmed this video for Westbooks of their Q & A session with author Liz Byrski. Find out about her latest book The Woman Next Door and her writing routine as she gets interviewed by Emily Paull. 

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

    January 31, 2013

    Samantha Tidy's The Happiness Jar

    February 20, 2014

    Australian Love Stories

    November 20, 2014
  • 365/333 The Oliver Standard Visible Writer No 3 by Rachel via Flickr
    Updates,  Writing

    Do you want a DWoA writing group?

    June 21, 2016 / No Comments

    I want to talk about writing groups today. As you may or may not already be aware, I do attend a regular writing session/group with two friends of mine every Friday. We sit in a bar, I write my book, they write their PhD theses and come four or five pm we have beer.

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    Frocktober, books and other things

    October 9, 2010

    The Defying Doomsday Anthology

    April 12, 2015

    The South Asian Women Writers Challenge 2014

    January 20, 2014
  • A few right thinking men by Sulari Gentill
    Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews

    Sulari Gentill’s A Few Right Thinking Men

    June 6, 2016 / 1 Comment

    I grew up on a literary diet that had a healthy portion of crime fiction in it and these days if I see one crime novel that sparks my interest then the entire process of hunting down the whole series one by one begins. This is also one reason why I am so glad that the first book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series never fully grabbed me in the same way – I would still be trying to get through all of them decades later.

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    Samantha Tidy's The Happiness Jar

    February 20, 2014

    AWW 2013: Marj McRae's Not A Man

    January 10, 2013

    Eleni Konstantine's Snoop

    February 13, 2014
  • Plan B by Sebastien Wiertz via Flickr
    Updates

    The writing plan for June

    June 3, 2016 / No Comments

    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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    Editor’s notes for Formaldehyde are up!

    September 3, 2015

    I need your help!

    April 17, 2012

    New project: Guys Read Gals

    February 18, 2013
  • The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan
    Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews

    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    May 25, 2016 / 6 Comments

    My heart fell out on a spring morning… ~ The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan Grief is an ever present theme in Australian literature. We are a nation of writers fascinated by either lack or loss. That, in itself, intrigues me. And it intrigues me that much like Anna’s opening line here, that we never run out of ways to twist and use language to be able to describe so well the nuances of the nature of that grief. And language and the use of it is what strikes me so immediately with The Paper House. This is Anna’s first book, one she has worked on for ages, one that…

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    Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

    January 25, 2014

    The Australian Women Writers’ Challenge 2016

    January 11, 2016
    Drive Me To Distraction by Caitlyn Nicholas

    Caitlyn Nicholas' Drive Me To Distraction

    February 21, 2013
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Literary Journalism

    The Australian Women Writers’ Challenge 2016

    January 11, 2016 / 1 Comment

    So in case you didn’t know, I often volunteer, and often fail (sorry Elizabeth) at rounding up and discussing what people have read for the Australian Women Writers’ Challenge in the genres of non fiction and short fiction and poetry. Occasionally, I interview authors for podcasts as well. The Challenge aims to get people reading more books written in all genres by Australian female and female identifying writers and to promote their work since we seem unable to rely on mainstream media to do a good enough job of doing so with no gender or racial bias involved. This year we hope to introduce a bingo card element to the…

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    AWW 2013: Marj McRae's Not A Man

    January 10, 2013

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

    January 31, 2013

    Jane Rawson's A Wrong Turn At The Office Of Unmade Lists

    January 16, 2014
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews

    Samantha Tidy's The Happiness Jar

    February 20, 2014 / 1 Comment

    There is a jar on one of my bookshelves. It smells vaguely of tomato sauce and in it are little twists of paper. The twists of paper hold words – reminders of things that have happened that made me happy – memories, experiences, ideas, facts. I got the idea from a blog post I came across while surfing the internet. A few days after I started it, I got a book in the mail: Samantha Tidy’s The Happiness Jar. It starts with a death, that of Rachel from cystic fibrosis. But Rachael leaves behind a happiness jar full of secrets and a two part will that baffles the daylights out…

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    AWW 2013: Interview with author Marj McRae

    January 17, 2013

    Marianne Delacourt’s Sharp Shooter

    April 2, 2015

    So who won the Australia Day Book Giveaway?

    January 30, 2013
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews

    Eleni Konstantine's Snoop

    February 13, 2014 / No Comments

    A detective. That works with the paranormal. So where do I sign up? I got hold of this because Eleni Konstantine was kind enough to send me a pdf version to review. Eleni writes short fiction, not quite flash or short story but nowhere near novella length either. And she usually is pure sci fi though much like Marianne de Pierres she does not shy away from the crossover with crime. Crime is bound to happen in the near future and any alternate timelines after all. And so in the space of a few words Eleni sketches out the scene: there are ghouls, goblins and vampires, there are systems &…

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    Samantha Tidy's The Happiness Jar

    February 20, 2014
    A few right thinking men by Sulari Gentill

    Sulari Gentill’s A Few Right Thinking Men

    June 6, 2016

    Interview with Jane Rawson

    March 20, 2014
  • 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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    Eleni Konstantine's Snoop

    February 13, 2014

    Samantha Tidy's The Happiness Jar

    February 20, 2014
    A few right thinking men by Sulari Gentill

    Sulari Gentill’s A Few Right Thinking Men

    June 6, 2016
  • 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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    Marianne de Pierres' Glitter Rose

    February 6, 2014

    AWW 2013: Marj McRae's Not A Man

    January 10, 2013

    Eleni Konstantine's Snoop

    February 13, 2014
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