Destination: Colombo, Sri Lanka Duration: December 2015 – February 2016 Brief: I have crash landed in Colombo again, this time for two months and I will be taking on a bit of freelancing work as well as some work experience at a news organisation though as yet I am not entirely sure exactly what I will be doing so stay ...
Over the past year, I have been looking into various means and platforms for crowdfunding. Why? Because I have a lot of ideas for novels and projects and while I make enough to support myself, sometimes these novels and projects incur costs to get them underway. The novels, for example, once the manuscripts are done and at first draft, require ...
Over the past year, I have been looking into various means and platforms for crowdfunding. Why? Because I have a lot of ideas for novels and projects and while I make enough to support myself, sometimes these novels and projects incur costs to get them underway. The novels, for example, once the manuscripts are done and at first draft, require ...
If you came here via the MEAA e-bulletin link, you have come to the right place. If you are a freelance journalist working for Australian publications, we would like to hear from you. We want to know how much you are being paid at each publication as a freelancer, how often and everything else related to it. And we don’t ...
If you came here via the MEAA e-bulletin link, you have come to the right place. If you are a freelance journalist working for Australian publications, we would like to hear from you. We want to know how much you are being paid at each publication as a freelancer, how often and everything else related to it. And we don’t ...
For those who still don’t know since you know I practically have bombarded you all with information about it – I was judge and editor for Viva La Novella 3 this year and I chose Jane Rawson’s work Formaldehyde and bravely brought her into the land of book titles with less than three words in them. You can buy Jane Rawson’s ...
For those who still don’t know since you know I practically have bombarded you all with information about it – I was judge and editor for Viva La Novella 3 this year and I chose Jane Rawson’s work Formaldehyde and bravely brought her into the land of book titles with less than three words in them. You can buy Jane Rawson’s ...
I just flew back from Melbourne over the weekend. I was in Melbourne for a reason: to help launch a book I had handpicked and edited for the Viva La Novella competition. If you’re following me on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, you would know all about it already. The book was Formaldehyde by Jane Rawson – for months I ...
I just flew back from Melbourne over the weekend. I was in Melbourne for a reason: to help launch a book I had handpicked and edited for the Viva La Novella competition. If you’re following me on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, you would know all about it already. The book was Formaldehyde by Jane Rawson – for months I ...
Author Jane Rawson is a fantastic person. And to attest to that awesomeness she has started a Readathon for the winter months of June and July. Basically you read whatever you like but if you are part of the team, people sponsor you for each book you read and the money goes to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation which I ...
Author Jane Rawson is a fantastic person. And to attest to that awesomeness she has started a Readathon for the winter months of June and July. Basically you read whatever you like but if you are part of the team, people sponsor you for each book you read and the money goes to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation which I ...
In the darkened theatre, an actor (Solayman Belmihoub) splits chalk into two and then raises his head to the audience and starts talking about dichotomies. About how when you are a mix of several different things, people want you to define yourself as one thing or the other. And I lean forward and go “Aha!” I just want to ...
In the darkened theatre, an actor (Solayman Belmihoub) splits chalk into two and then raises his head to the audience and starts talking about dichotomies. About how when you are a mix of several different things, people want you to define yourself as one thing or the other. And I lean forward and go “Aha!” I just want to ...
Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench are two amazing bibliophiles and activists, of the literary kind. They are also all things speculative fiction crazy. They have come up with an idea that makes you wonder why it hasn’t been done yet. Together with Alisa Krasnostein of Twelfth Planet Press they are planning an anthology of dystopian speculative fiction… with the main ...
Earlier this week, the Sri Lankan blogosphere’s main blog aggregator/planet/definitive index Kottu turned 10. No one seemed to notice – I certainly didn’t know till Cerno and Yudhanjaya posted about it online. So let me explain something to my non-Sri Lankan readers: I started blogging in 1998. Sometime in what must have been say 2005 or so though I barely remember ...
As many of you know I am involved with the project Australian Women Writers and am responsible for herding the reviews by those reading non fiction, short fiction and poetry. For a long time, Elizabeth Lhuede who started the project has wanted to experiment with video. Of course I was keen on helping out with this. We are now starting ...
I think often about what it means to stand in a spot in one place and to take it all in. To live in a place long enough to be someone who understands how life works its way through that spot’s particular urban or rural landscape. And how it feels like saying hello to an old friend when you pick ...
“I want to leave behind a body of work where someone can look at it and say ‘that changed my life’.” – Robin Bower Beyond Home by Robin Bower When we read novels, we often argue over what makes them good. Harold Bloom’s famous list of the Western Literary Canon included no female authors and he copped a lot ...
