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July 2016 Writing Calendar
I decided to put this calendar for the month of June together on a whim. And then people loved it. 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 July 2016 from today onwards. So a few quick answers to questions: Will this list always be on this site? MEAA WA is keen to cross-post/host/something along those lines. This will also be cross-posted at Emily Paull‘s site. And possibly on DWOA once we tweak a few things. Can you compile a list for Victoria and Melbourne? Not at this point – no time to spare.…
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Competition: African-Australian short stories
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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Upcoming awards, residencies and other awesome things for writers
It’s tough out there for a writer. So here are a few things coming up that you should probably be aware of. Hachette Australia Manuscript Development Program (QWC): Upto 10 writers will get to work with editors on their manuscripts with 3 places reserved for writers residing in Queensland. The program will run from 4 – 7 November 2016 in Brisbane, Queensland. Only unpublished and emerging fiction and non-fiction Australian resident writers can apply. Application deadline is 16 May 2016. Entries must be between 55,000 and 110,000 words and the following are NOT ELIGIBLE: sci-fi, fantasy, young adult, self-help, cookbooks, business, academic, educational, poetry, plays, short stories. Applications must include: first…
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Happy Valentine's Day!
Here’s a secret: I don’t really like the idea of Valentine’s Day. Why? Well, because I think it can, if we are not careful enough, end up being an excuse to NOT work on our relationships for the rest of the year. I don’t think that is a good thing. I think any relationship of any sort, romantic or otherwise, needs each person involved to continually spend time and effort working on it. All the time. Whatever it is that you actually do with each other. I think the people in our lives are worth more than just one day of the year’s worth of attention. And if you…
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The winner of the Australia Day Blog Hop Book Giveaway
… is Jess Fitzpatrick from The Neverending Bookshelf which is sort of appropriate because I don’t have one of those and I am running out of bookshelf space myself. Jess Fitzpatrick, you should have an email from me in your inbox to which you should reply with a) your postal address and b) your choice of TWO books from the following: Aleks Krotoski’s Untangling The Web (non-fiction: science) AUSSIE AUTHOR: Michael Hawton’s Talk Less, Listen More: Solutions for children’s difficult behaviour (non-fiction: parenting) AUSSIE AUTHOR: Mark Willacy’s Fukushima: Japan’s tsunami & the inside story of the nuclear meltdowns (non-fiction: science) Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (contemporary fiction) Sue Grafton’s W…
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Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop
Marisa Wikramanayake takes part in the Australia Day Book giveaway Blog Hop for 2014, giving away a choice of two books from the never ending giveaway pile.
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Real men do read – they just don't let the sexy, geek goddesses know.
Rob Kennedy, an Australian poet (and male for the purposes of this discussion) asked this question in a blog post recently: Do real men read books?* He had several issues with this question: What the hell constitutes a “real man” anyway? To which I nod my head furiously because yes, what the hell are we discussing when we talk about “real men”? What makes one man more “real” than the next, apart from the fact that maybe he isn’t some intangible figure in your brain…… moving on. The reason he asked the question in the first place was because he had found a lot of American based programs and websites…
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So who won the Australia Day Book Giveaway?
Who won the haul? That’s what you want to know right? What haul? This haul! Which I have to say is a pretty amazing haul. But what I found amazing were your comments. Thank you guys. It was really interesting to see what your favourite poems were and the reasons why as well. So while my cat ponders which one of you is lucky enough to win (or is distasteful enough that she doesn’t swallow the piece of paper your name is written on), let’s see some of your poetry favourites. KathArine (who does spell her name like that) kicks us off with Robert Frost: “Nature’s first green is gold,…
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Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop
So the lovely people at Book’d Out kickstarted this off. Basically each blog involved runs a competition of some sort and the point is to give away a book by an Australian author to a lucky winner or a book voucher or something like that. This means not only do I have to come up with the means by which you participate as a reader and I pick a winner but also what you will get if you do win. And it occurs to me that a book loved should be a book shared. And that I have some copies of my own book left. The competition starts: 25th January…
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Encapsulation 101: creating a tagline for your business
Marisa Wikramanayake describes the process of creating taglines and slogans and announces a competition for the best tagline suggestion/vote for her business.
