A group of us have been working towards a new prize to award women's writing. Read all about that over at our new, and very own website and in yesterday's Age.
If you'd like to read an extract from my latest book, Melbourne, you'll find the one the Age published a couple of weeks ago here. You'll find Jane Sullivan's review here, and Kate Holden's review here. There was a really wonderful review by Waleed Aly (also in the Age) but I don't have a link to that, nor, thankfully, the very negative one by Peter Pearce, that was run in the Australian.
If you want to read Melbourne as an ebook, Booki.sh have done a lovely version, which you'll find here.
I gave a lecture at the Melbourne Writers Festival on Sunday night as a part of their Big Ideas series. It was on why we still need feminism. You can read an extract of it here, on Crikey. Or read an earlier article that Kill Your Darlings published in their July issue, that covers some of the same ground.
Today's an important day for Australian publishing. Readings bookshop has launched its new ebook store. Australian, independent publishers now have access to a multi-platform ebook that is NOT a part of a monolith like Amazon or Google. Everyone who's contributed...More»
Katherine is 300 km south of Darwin. There can be severe floods there in February/March - in 1998 and 2006 there was great devastation - and the folks at the NT Writers Centre sent me cheery emails along the lines...More»
AUTHORS are intellectually incoherent with outrage . . . The Australian 's editorial goes on in this vein for a while. It's a grotesque misrepresentation of the situation that author's will face if the Productivity Commission's draft report goes through.
This website has been built so that those who want to support Harry Nicolaides the Australian writer currently being held in a Thai prison. His sentence for 'insulting the monarchy' is three years.
Somewhat belatedly, I want to note the death of Glenn Goldman, the founder of that great LA bookshop on Sunset: Duck Soup.
These images superimposing Leningrad during the Siege onto modern St Petersburg, are extraordinary.
On November 3 I'm taking part in a day long publishing forumVaruna is putting on in the Blue Mountains. If you're interested, come along.
