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MEAA Melbourne Media Drinks
I will be at the next Melbourne MEAA Media Drinks if you want to come say hi. It’s free and both members and non-members are welcome. There will be light refreshments so we do ask that you RSVP so we know how much to order. So come chat to me in person then.
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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 2016Â 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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Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014
Marisa Wikramanayake announces her intention to participate in the Australian Women Writers Challenge for 2014
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2014 beckons
I don’t know what 2014 is the year of. Apart from being the Year of the Green Wood Horse. And apparently the International Year of Family Farming so please think about where your food and consumer goods come from and whether they are ethically and sustainably produced. But it is 2014 now. 2013 has gone. I was busy in 2013 and so it flew by fast. The editing conference is over and I can breathe again. In December you all nearly decimated my server by loving the How to tell if you are an editor post so much so thanks for that. Clearly humour wins you over. If you want…
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Tips for being a science journalist
A brief summary of my seminar (part of the UWA Science Communication Seminar series) on 6 August 2010.
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How to get started in journalism
While meandering through Facebook one day, I noticed that a younger friend of mine had tagged me in a status post. I clicked through to see what it was about and why he would feel the need to mention my name. It was the status of a friend of his, a young university student and he had offered my name in the comments on it as part of the advice he had offered to this student’s query. The query was this: Made another application but it doesn’t look like I’ll even get an interview  how the fuck am I supposed to become a journalist if no one will hire me without…
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Australian Women Writers Challenge, Book Reviews, Events, IPEd Con 2013, Journalism, Political journalism, Projects, Science journalism, Updates
Where have I been?
Recovering mostly. The conference is over. But the organisation part of it isn’t. There are accounts to be finalised and even now, still a lot of emails to answer. So let me digress to answer the most often asked question via email now: Conference proceedings will be posted on the website and you will all be emailed to be told when they get uploaded. But what else have I been up to? Well, I have had a particularly weird and busy time of it and a lot of it has involved writing. So without further ado, here is the list: I have reviewed: Amanda Curtin’s Elemental which will end up in…
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6 May 2013: MediaPass Student Industry Day
Apparently I am “amazing”. So amazing in fact that the Walkley team have asked me to be part of the Young Journalists Panel this year at the MediaPass Student Industry Day. Where: State Library of WA, Perth When: 6 May 2013 – 9 am onwards Who else will be there? Colleen Egan is the keynote speaker for a start and Patrick Horneman will be there as well. Who can attend: Anyone who is a journalism or communications student at undergraduate/postgraduate level. How: Sign up here. Cost: FREE. What will I be speaking on? My experiences as a freelancer and why I got into it and how and then answering questions.…
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The Rockstar Freelance Lifestyle
Speakers/Presenters: Sarah J H Fletcher, Abigail Nathan, Patrick Horneman, Karen Strain, Dinesh Aggarwal and Marisa Wikramanayake The idea originally came about via a Twitter discussion between Sarah, Abigail and I. We had met at Sydney in 2011 where Abigail had the both equally pleasurable and painful experience of helping to plan a conference and I was about to embark on it myself. But then there was much waving of hands. We wanted to make it fun as well as helpful. And I ran into Patrick Horneman at the MediaPass Student Industry days for journalism graduates and students where I was expounding on freelancing as a journalist and he was expounding…
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Twitter feed for the Wednesday Workshops
The Wednesday workshops have started. Refresh the page to keep seeing the latest tweets and photos. As always, please check the main conference blog for all the posts, tweets and photos. Tweets about “#ipedcon2013 OR #rockstarfreelancelifestyle”
