‘Half Wild’ is based on the real life of Eugenia Falleni, a transgender person who captivated Sydney in 1920 when, living as Harry Crawford, he was arrested for the murder of Annie Birkett, his wife. How did you come across this fascinating tale? I first came across Falleni’s story when I visited the City of […]
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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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On the event of her passing, I had a stark realisation (one seen only through clouding tears): that Carrie Fisher was my mental health icon, for at least a decade, if not longer. I am fast coming up to a decade of living with a diagnosis of Bipolar II, something I don’t really think (or talk
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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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A story by Syrian-born actor and writer Jean Bachoura is the winner of the 2016 Deborah Cass Writing Prize. ‘Night Falls’, an extract from a larger work in progress, tells a gripping story of a young Syrian-Australian, Eyad, returning to war-destroyed Damascus to meet his mother and revisit his childhood home. The runners up were
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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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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
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Five writers with disability will receive professional development opportunities at Writers Victoria through the fourth annual Write-ability Fellowships announced this week. Fellowships were awarded to writers working in a range of styles and genres, including creative fiction, memoir, non-fiction and creative non-fiction. The five fellowships have been awarded to Vincent Silk, Jessica Knight, Daniel Kraus,
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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 regional writer Natasha Agafonoff explores the link between writing and wellness, and when the pen is mightier than the shrink… ‘Oh, I see the problem,’ Mr Fleming’s voice booms
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Over the last year, our Writeability Goes Regional project has included a remit to showcase the work of some of Victoria’s regional writers with disability. After receiving widespread acclaim for his role in the ABC production of Christos Tsiolkas’ ‘Barracuda’, Geelong actor, writer and disability advocate Chris Van Ingen discusses how his writing has influenced his
