My last act as Creative Producer at Express Media is to go to National Young Writers’ Festival. I’ll be appearing at three panels, all of which seem to be perfectly created to explore my favourite topics. If you haven’t been to NYWF, this is the year to make the trip…
Read MoreAs August draws to a close I thought it might be worth checking in on my reading goals for this year. As in previous years, I set myself the goal of reading 52 books this year. One per week always sounds entirely reasonable, but I’ve been shocked to see how…
Read MoreI’m proud as punch to have a short contribution included in this collection by if: book Australia and Editia, The Noobz. Focussing on expermients in reading and writing, it’s a short and sweet collection featuring wonderful writers such as Romy Ash, Ronnie Scott and Benjamin Law. Not bad company to…
Read MoreLast year I had the pleasure of being included in The Emerging Writer, produced by the Emerging Writers’ Festival as a compendium of advice and thoughts about the business of being a writer. I wrote a chapter on community; what that means, how you can find or build your own,…
Read MoreIt’s been an incredibly busy and incredibly good time for me over the past few months. I’ve submitted a book chapter for an amazing project, done an in-conversation event with John Marsden at The Wheeler Centre, hosted a panel on women in writing at the Emerging Writers’ Festival, been asked…
Read MoreMost of March/April has been focused on the epic UK trip, which I have written about here. It was a fantastic opportunity, and has re-energised me on lots of fronts. While away I did get the good news that my pitch for a chapter in a new book about girls…
Read MoreMy literary pilgrimage to the UK (okay, actually tagging along on partner’s work trip and hijacking it somewhat to fit in some literary business) went swimmingly, although of course it has only made me even more keen to learn more. While there, I managed to: Meet with Jenny Niven and…
Read MoreIn my recent travels around the beautiful continent of the United Kingdom, I set myself the challenge of reading works either written about, or by people from, the UK. I asked for recommendations on Facebook, compiled a wish list of reads, loaded up my Kobo and set off on a…
Read MoreHere are my Limited News pieces for this month: Listen read watch: The Luminaries, Survivor, The Lifted Brow Listen read watch: True Detective, True Detective, True Detective
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SBS: Female sensibilities the undoing of kids’ books? I don’t think so
Are women in publishing the reason young boys aren’t reading? Some within the industry would have us think so, and I wrote about it for SBS News’ Comment and Analysis section. Here’s a taste: “Women are relegated to working in children’s publishing because, like many other services or industries, books…
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