Sylvia Petter's Blog, page 10
February 10, 2015
The Personal Touch
The personal touch is all it takes to get me smiling, reading and writing. It gets me feeling that sharing is really the only way. Oh, I appreciate the helpful… more
February 7, 2015
Help may be out there – in fiction!
Since I talked to you last some strange things have happened: a reading, an election, and a spill on the horizon. All this has got me thinking and I guess,… more
January 23, 2015
Open mics in Vienna – a new learning
Yesterday I attended an open mic organised by Write Now, a new association of English-language writers in Vienna that I know through writing friends Ida, Paul and Kirsten. I didn’t… more
January 14, 2015
Change – it’s all very strange
A close friend of mine is an artist who enjoys reading deep esoteric material – dying, healing, the after-life, and also Krimis – Mankell, George, Leon, and a host of… more
January 1, 2015
Hot and cold showers – (em)bracing for change
I think everything that happened to me in 2014 has helped me as a writer and as a person. There were good things and sad things, and I managed to… more
December 11, 2014
Austrian Press Coverage of the Vienna Conference – Part 4
The Austrian media didn’t just cover the 13th International Conference on the Short Story in English in German. There was also media coverage in English with Johnny Bliss, a young… more
December 5, 2014
Austrian Press Coverage of the Vienna Conference – Part 3
In Part 3 of this series, Lucia Reinsperger takes a more scientific approach (science.orf.at) in her interviews with Lisa Smithies on cognition and Susan Lohafer on the place of the… more
November 30, 2014
Austrian Press Coverage of the Vienna Conference – Part 2
In Part 2 of this series, Wolfgang Popp was attracted by new forms, those of flash fiction, micro fiction, and twiction, and interviews Richard Lee of the State University of… more
November 24, 2014
Austrian Press Coverage of the Vienna Conference – Part 1
The 13th International Conference on the Short Story in English was held in Vienna last July, and it was a resounding success with writers and scholars from 38 countries interacting,… more
November 17, 2014
My flash fiction workshop at Café Fichtl, Vienna
On Saturday 15 November, I led a workshop on flash fictionat my local, Café Fichtl in Floridsdorf, Vienna, where I had already done a reading in German on 29 October.… more
