Home again, home again, where is home again?
It has been a hell of a month, this October. So huge it spilled into November! Here’s why it’s been ages, well, more than a month, since I wrote on this blog: We kicked off October on Bribie Island at...
View ArticleNotions Unlimited opens, and other writerly news
Yay for Chuck McKenzie who, after four years running a Dymocks shop, has gone it alone with Notions Unlimited spec fic book store at Melbourne’s bayside Chelsea. Ensconced between a coffee shop and a...
View ArticleSubmissions open for Queensland Literary Awards, and other writerly news
Behind the 8-ball on this news: submissions are open for the Queensland Literary Awards — these are the community-based awards put together in quick time after newly elected premier Campbell Newman...
View ArticleHonourable mentions by Ellen Datlow
Editor extraordinaire Ellen Datlow has released the LOOOOONG list — and it’s true to label, appearing in two pieces (Alexandra to Johnstone, Jones to Yolen) on her blog — to go with the short list of...
View ArticleRecent reads: Gibson, Strahan, Kiernan, Abbott
I’ve been slack, sneaking in a bit of reading and not passing on the goods. So here’s a quick summary of yarns I’ve read lately (outside of last year’s Australian Women Writers Challenge) that have...
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