This is the last season I’ll be programming for Writers Victoria. I am finishing at the organisation this week. “What are you doing next?” people ask. “Where are you going?” I am going to read all the books piled up in the corners of my apartment. I am going to burrow underground. I am going […]
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As an introduction to our 2024 program of events, Writers Victoria’s Program and Partnerships Manager, Anna Kate Blair, writes below about our 2024 theme: TWILIGHT. oh! that the time comes when hearts are aflame – Arthur Rimbaud, borrowed as an epigraph by Éric Rohmer, and now by me In summer, twilight comes late. I’m impatient
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It seems there’s a rule that any house that’s old enough to be heritage listed is haunted by rumours of ghosts. I don’t like rules, but I wouldn’t break this one; I’d rather spread the rumours. Glenfern was built in 1857, a Gothic Revival mansion that tumbled through history – its structures, grounds and inhabitants
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As an introduction to Season 2 of our 2023 program of events, Writers Victoria’s Program and Partnerships Manager, Anna Kate Blair, reflects on the 2023 theme: FLOW. I wrote, in my introduction for Season 1, that we’d chosen to theme 2023 around flow as an aspirational concept, something that seemed to be missing in 2022.
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As an introduction to our 2023 program of events, Writers Victoria’s Program and Partnerships Manager, Anna Kate Blair, writes below about our 2023 theme: FLOW. I know many writers, myself included, who love water, love writing about it. It makes sense, to me: words operate like liquid. They can pool in the wrong places, stagnate,
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I started daydreaming about the Season 2 program before I started working at Writers Victoria, before I knew that our theme for this year was Glimmer. It feels appropriate, though, because my experience of the past few months, putting this program together, has been one of bright sequins twinkling on the horizon. I feel extremely
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