Your novel ‘Hello, Goodbye’ was sparked by your aunt’s story of being single, pregnant and Catholic in the 1960s. Though not a retelling of your aunt’s experience, how much did the need to honour your aunt, and other women who had been through a similar experience, weigh on you as you wrote the novel? My […]
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‘Wish You Were Here’ is your memoir of a broken heart and a crazy dash across America in a red spotty dress and a shiny red sports car. After many impossible adventures it ends with you finding love. Was writing ‘Wish you were here‘ a cathartic experience? No, but the trip was! The writing was actually fun –
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Your first book ‘Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen’ went deep into the psyche of one of Australia’s most celebrated and, as it turns out, most troubled artists. The book won the Nib Award for Literature and you yourself have won multiple awards for your outstanding work as a journalist. Your new book
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Thanks to a recent donation, Writers Victoria is running a series of professional development opportunities for women writers of colour and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. The initiative includes bursaries to attend workshops, paid commissions in The Victorian Writer and a free training session in 2018. The first round of bursaries and commissions have been
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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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Australian literary professionals will be able to follow their storylines around the country and overseas following the announcement of a new travel fund. Opening for applications in July 2017, the inaugural Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund will provide inspiration and practical support to emerging, midcareer and established writers, editors, agents, publishers, librarians, booksellers and other
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Writers Victoria is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2016 Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition. In the Short Fiction category, judges Astrid Edwards and Laurie Steed were impressed by the submissions, reporting that they saw “many glimpses of potential and interesting concepts.” But it was the originality and strength of execution that set
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WVs Write-ability program was highly commended at the 2016 Victorian Disability Awards ceremony yesterday for excellence in cultural and social access. Over the last four years, Write-ability has provided accessible literary activities, opportunities and commissions for people with disability in Melbourne and Geelong. You can read more about our programs for writers with disability on
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In front of a packed audience at The Wheeler Centre, the 2016 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship winner was announced in Melbourne last night. Matthew Lamb was awarded the $10,000 Fellowship for his proposed cultural biography of the Australian writer Frank Moorhouse. Lamb’s biography will include not only a narrative of Frank Moorhouse’s life, but also
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Moreno Giovannoni was announced as the winner of the inaugural Deborah Cass Writing Prize at an event last night at Writers Victoria. The Prize was established in honour of Melbourne writer Deborah Cass and aims to aims to help someone from a migrant background find a voice for themselves and be encouraged to finish and publish
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