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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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    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    Where have I been?

    May 5, 2013
    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    May 25, 2016

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

    January 16, 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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    Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

    January 25, 2013

    Marianne de Pierres' Glitter Rose

    February 6, 2014

    Eleni Konstantine's Snoop

    February 13, 2014
  • 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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    AWW 2013: Marion Halligan's Murder On The Apricot Coast

    February 7, 2013

    Interview with Jane Rawson

    March 20, 2014

    AWW 2013: Marj McRae's Not A Man

    January 10, 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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    Jane Rawson's A Wrong Turn At The Office Of Unmade Lists

    January 16, 2014

    Kerry Greenwood's Unnatural Habits

    January 3, 2013

    AWW 2013: Marion Halligan's Murder On The Apricot Coast

    February 7, 2013
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge

    Marianne De Pierre’s interview

    April 11, 2015 / No Comments

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    Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

    January 25, 2014

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

    January 31, 2013

    Kerry Greenwood's Unnatural Habits

    January 3, 2013
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Updates

    Introducing In Conversation With

    April 6, 2015 / 1 Comment

    As many of you know I am involved with the project Australian Women Writers and am responsible for herding the reviews by those reading non fiction, short fiction and poetry. For a long time, Elizabeth Lhuede who started the project has wanted to experiment with video. Of course I was keen on helping out with this. We are now starting a series of video interviews with Australian female writers. They are held informally over a Skype call and are edited and uploaded fortnightly. We hope to get better at this as we go but we also have audio and text only versions of the interviews for those who aren’t keen…

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    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    May 25, 2016

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

    January 16, 2014
    Drive Me To Distraction by Caitlyn Nicholas

    Caitlyn Nicholas' Drive Me To Distraction

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

    Marianne Delacourt’s Sharp Shooter

    April 2, 2015 / 2 Comments

    I think often about what it means to stand in a spot in one place and to take it all in. To live in a place long enough to be someone who understands how life works its way through that spot’s particular urban or rural landscape. And how it feels like saying hello to an old friend when you pick up a book to find yourself in a place that is both that place you know and also perhaps for the sake of the work, not quite that place either. But that’s just the start of what surprises you about the Tara Sharp series by Marianne Delacourt, pseudonym of Marianne…

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    AWW 2013: Marion Halligan's Murder On The Apricot Coast

    February 7, 2013
    A few right thinking men by Sulari Gentill

    Sulari Gentill’s A Few Right Thinking Men

    June 6, 2016
    A real bookshop by Elsie esq via Flickr

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

    January 3, 2014
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Literary Journalism

    Robin Bower’s Beyond Home

    March 28, 2015 / No Comments

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    Interview with Jane Rawson

    March 20, 2014

    AWW 2013: Amanda Curtin's Inherited

    January 24, 2013

    Kerry Greenwood's Unnatural Habits

    January 3, 2013
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Journalism,  Literary Journalism,  Projects

    Australian Love Stories

    November 20, 2014 / No Comments

    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

    March 20, 2014

    The Australian Women Writers’ Challenge 2016

    January 11, 2016

    AWW 2013: Marj McRae's Not A Man

    January 10, 2013
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Journalism,  Literary Journalism

    Interview with Jane Rawson

    March 20, 2014 / No Comments

    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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    The Australian Women Writers’ Challenge 2016

    January 11, 2016

    Samantha Tidy's The Happiness Jar

    February 20, 2014

    Introducing In Conversation With

    April 6, 2015
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