This blog post might be of great interest to emerging writers, especially YA and children’s authors. Recently, on a Saturday morning, three members of SCWBI Canberra carpooled and headed off on a memorable journey through artist-worthy Australian bush landscapes...
Brave! That’s what I would call Charlotte Wood, having just finished reading her Stella Award novel, ‘The Natural Way of Things’. The first thought that fixes in my mind is “unnatural”, and this novel is disturbing, to say the least. I have had friends say...
Our hands touched as she reached for the Arts flyers in the stand near the supermarket. Culture vultures lurk there often. I was collecting info on upcoming theatre performances I might like to attend and so was she. She smiled at me and asked if I was local or from...
Standing ovations are rare in this country. Performers have to really earn them and rarely do performances move an Australian audience to the point where empathy surpasses apathy! It’s not because we don’t care. It’s not because we are generally apathetic – no. It’s...
Richard Glover conducts a heartfelt, meticulous autopsy of his key family relationships in Flesh Wounds. The result? We get the sinister and the sensitive, the heart-wrenching and the uplifting, the humorous and the melancholy, the hubris and the intellect — but wait...
