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Watch “Emily Paull in conversation with Liz Byrski” on YouTube
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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The Australian Women Writers’ Challenge 2016
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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The Defying Doomsday Anthology
Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench are two amazing bibliophiles and activists, of the literary kind. They are also all things speculative fiction crazy. They have come up with an idea that makes you wonder why it hasn’t been done yet. Together with Alisa Krasnostein of Twelfth Planet Press they are planning an anthology of dystopian speculative fiction… with the main characters in each story being disabled/differently abled, neuro diverse or suffering from a chronic or mental illness. What better way to highlight the fact that people have agency and are capable than setting it in a post-apocalyptic context? Intrigued by this, I volunteered to be part of the blog tour and…
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Robin Bower’s Beyond Home
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Australian Love Stories
Here's the livetweet feed of the panel discussion held at The Orient Hotel in Fremantle on Wednesday 19 November 2014. The panel consisted of Susan Midalia, Danielle McGee, Natasha Lester and Sally-Ann Jones, all authors included in the anthology and Will Yeoman, books editor of The West Australian
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Interview with Jane Rawson
When Jane Rawson’s book A Wrong Turn At The Office of Unmade Lists showed up in my mail box, I was both thrilled and dismayed. I was thrilled because the cover caught my eye and it had maps on it and I adore anything to do with maps and geography. I was dismayed because the book title was long. And on checking the blurb I wasn’t entirely convinced. A Wrong Turn At The Office Of Unmade Lists is a) a cool plot idea which made me think I would be trembling with envy throughout reading it but b) is set in a dystopian universe which made me think I would…
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Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014
Marisa Wikramanayake announces her intention to participate in the Australian Women Writers Challenge for 2014
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Capering criminally with the challenge: what I read for Australian Women Writers 2013
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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Tweet from Marisa Wikramanayake (@mwikramanayake)
Marisa Wikramanayake (@mwikramanayake) tweeted at 7:14 AM on Fri, Jun 28, 2013: The #books I have to review for @thewest_com_au #perth #writetip #writechat #literarykitty https://t.co/3wTfCwP8kr (https://twitter.com/mwikramanayake/status/350391793860362240) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download
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Tweet from Marisa Wikramanayake (@mwikramanayake)
https://t.co/3wTfCwP8kr
