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Things You Have Wanted to Know About Sensitivity Reading and Were Too Afraid To Ask – Continuum Panel
Jess Flint, Creatrix Tiara, Sangeetha Thanapal and I will be discussing why it is important to use a sensitivity reader and why it is important to respect readers of your work and other groups and cultures. It’s going to be a fun ride. Tickets are per day and include rates for full, concession, youth and first time members so check for pricing details on the Continuum website.
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The Inequality of Magic – Continuum Panel
We will be chatting about why there are weird gender based tropes around how magic is used in fantasy fiction stories. Come see me, Darren / Lexie, Dorian Manticore, Gillian Polack, and Jane Routley discuss the importance of representation and the messages we send when we don’t do it well. Ticket prices are per session or per day so check the Continuum website for details.
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Breaking The Mould – Continuum Panel
More info to come.
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So You Want To Be A Book Reviewer? – Continuum panel
I and a few other awesome people will be on a panel discussing how to become a book reviewer and what it is like to be one. Stay tuned for more information including confirmed speakers.
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Upcoming events in June 2018
I am going to be rather tired this month. But that’s a good thing because you get to see me at several events during June. Check out the events page. Continuum Panels The very first one kicks off in two days time: So You Want To Be A Book Reviewer? This is an awesome panel at the Continuum Speculative Fiction Convention at the Jasper Hotel in Melbourne running from Friday 8 June to Monday 11 June. I am on it with Figgy and Elizabeth Fitzgerald and it starts at 5 pm on Friday. We will discuss how book reviewing changes depending on how you do it, what you need to…
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Building alliances – a panel on organisations working together
So I was asked to be on this panel about building alliances which mostly came about because I had previously contacted IPEd with ideas about how IPEd and MEAA could collaborate. The panel consisted of myself, representing all things MEAA, Juliet Rogers of the ASA, Sherrey Quinn from ANZSI, Queensland Writers Centre’s CEO Katie Woods and the Rosanna Arciuli from the Copyright Agency. In a nutshell we definitely agreed on several points: It was vital for us to band together on several big theme issues because there was power in numbers no matter which organisation spearheaded the issue and campaign. Such big theme issues that we cared about were copyright…
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Freelancing panel at IPEd 2017
I’m not necessarily going to write these notes out in order but here is a quick run down of my bootstrapping for a freelancing business. Use tech to bring freelancing work to you: I find that my work comes through being the first person to email someone as soon as an opportunity comes up. I also find it useful to work across time zones. So how do you bootstrap this? And for free? Facebook groups: figure out which group has the most posts for the sort of work you want to do popping up and change its settings so that you are notified by Facebook of new posts popping up.…
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Crimescene WA & Real Scientists
I am really rather excited about the second week of October this year. Why? Well, the week starts on the 6th of October. And at midnight sharp on the 6th of October, I take over the @realscientists account on Twitter. The @realscientists account is curated/run each week by a scientist, science writer, science artist, science communicator, science illustrator… you get the idea. The aim of the project is to get more information about science, all sorts of science, out to the public. And I am part excited, part terrified, part nervous about taking over tweeting about what I do to do with science for a whole week. If you have…
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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.…
