Writing is often loosely divided into fiction and non-fiction, but the reality is far more complicated. Karen Andrews discusses some of the key challenges ahead of her Writeability: Finding the Form workshop. Is the line between fiction and non-fiction as clear-cut as it seems? Oh, that is an excellent question that goes to the heart […]
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Memoir, poetry, spoken word and young adult fiction are among the works to earn their authors 2017 Write-ability Fellowships. Five emerging writers with disability – Mary Borsellino (Williamstown), Sonia Marcon (Pascoe Vale), Jarrod Marrinon (St Kilda), Fiona Murphy (North Melbourne) and Jessica Walton (Pakenham) – have been awarded the fellowships and will receive mentoring, manuscript
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Jax Jacki Brown grew up in a regional area and understands the importance of community. Ahead of the Writeability Goes Regional and Online Own Voices: Why Writing Matters forum in Bendigo, Jax spoke about stereotypes, community and the importance of representing those with disability as nuanced, whole people. You spoke at the first Own Voices:
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Reading books with queer and disabled characters had a huge impact on Jessica Walton and the way she saw herself. Ahead of her Our bodies, our stories webinar for the Writeability program, Jess explains the importance – and positive impact – including marginalised characters in literature can have on readers from all backgrounds and marginalised groups. Why is it
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If you’d told me two years ago that I’d soon be the author of a picture book published in over ten countries, I’d have laughed. I loved creative writing in school, and had won numerous writing competitions including an international poetry competition run by the Vatican, but I was eventually convinced that it wasn’t going
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Are you a digital native (the generation of people born during or after the rise of digital technologies) or a digital immigrant (people born before the advent of digital technology)? Either way the internet moves so fast: it can be hard to remember a time when YouTube Videos were limited to ten minutes and you
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We all live in the internet. We see it, we breathe it, we create our lives in it. But it’s changing and growing all the time, in big ways we can perceive, and in small ways we can’t. For the 2016 Digital Writers’ Festival, emerging writer Jessica Knight was part of an innovative and informative live streamed
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“You often hear about writer’s block as a negative thing,” says WV tutor Micheline Lee. “I have found that a block can be constructive, prompting you to stop and re-evaluate.” Micheline was born in Malaysia and migrated to Melbourne when she was eight. After completing law at Monash University, she lived in Darwin for 15
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Over the last year, our Writeability Goes Regional project has included a remit to uncover and showcase the work of some of Victoria’s regional writers with disability. Here Susan Mackenzie challenges the perception that ‘Young People Don’t Get Sick’. Right? They’re young and invincible and the world is their crustaceous slimy pearl-home. Wrong. Turns out we do get sick.
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Over the last year, our Writeability Goes Regional project has included a remit to uncover and showcase the work of some of Victoria’s regional writers with disability. Enjoy this extract from ‘Hunger’ by regional writer and 2013 Writeability Fellow Kate Hood… She saw further than others and knew it. Her creeping paralysis had destroyed some things and
