Sylvia Petter's Blog, page 15
September 26, 2012
More September!
Off to Geneva tomorrow for the Australia Festival in Divonne-le-Bains, France. It's been years since I've been back and am looking forward to it. I recently met up in Vienna with one of the poets performing there, Terry Jaensch, and will be catching his discussion. Aussie journo, Jake Moss, is also rumoured to be reading there. Just wondering how he'll be travelling to Divonne - horse, bike, arrow? Check out the programme. It'll be a great event on which I'll be sure to report when I'm back i...
September 20, 2012
My September York Experience
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August 28, 2012
September is now!
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August 11, 2012
Augusta Days & Nights
I first met Augusta Laar in 2006 when she was leading the poetry writing in the Vienna Poetry School’s workshop Orpheus in Eurydike where I was doing prose with Ernst Molden.
In 2008, I was pleased to participate with her and her husband, Kalle Laar, in a team with Carina Nekolny, Judith Pfeifer and Petra Sturm in a project Sehnsucht Südsee run by the Austrian South Pacific Society through the University of Vienna.
And this led to my participating in Augusta’s Madonna sagt … project where she w...
July 6, 2012
New Sun Rising: Stories for Japan - the book!
When I left in a rush to dash off to Sweden on 11 June for some retreat time to work on my novel manuscript, the charity anthology,
New Sun Rising: Stories for Japan
had just come out on Kindle; the paperback is due out in September. It was an enormous job getting the anthology ready - from tracking down contributors to making final edits and kindling it. But I´m so glad these efforts were made.
In today´s Sydney Morning Herald, I came across this article and this bit stuck out: ''It was a pr...
In today´s Sydney Morning Herald, I came across this article and this bit stuck out: ''It was a pr...
Rocking in Little Rock
Bridges: A Global Anthology of Short Stories (conference anthology, Ed Maurice Lee), Our Daily Bread (Lauren B. Davis), Girl in a Library (Kelly Cherry), The Fine Colour of Rust (Paddy O´Reilly), Pointed Sentences (Bill Yarrow), Notes from a Stripper (Mimi Carmen), Mennonites Don´t Dance (Darcie Friesen Hossack), Furious Cooking (Maureen Seaton), Flash Fiction (anthology), Island (Alistair MacLeod), Reading Women (postcards)My back is aching from lugging almost 20kg back from Little Rock, Ark...
May 16, 2012
A flash day!
Today is Flash Fiction Day! It started out as National Flash Fiction Day in the UK, but so many flash fiction writers wanted to scramble aboard and so there are events going on all over the place. There are masses of free stories flashing over the internet and offline, too.
National Flash Fiction Day is the brainchild of Calum Kerr. Have a look at all the events, and goodies: the Flash Flood Journal which will be flooded with flash fiction today; writers from the UK and elsewhere in the world...
May 3, 2012
sisi reconstructed
Last Friday I went to the Literaturhausin Vienna to see sisi reconstructed (the sisi project).
Sisi, the migrant, the poet, criss crossing cultural borders – a remix created and presented by Sandra Gugic, Augusta Laar, Judith Pfeifer und Sophie Reyer. Using texts and letters, articles and scripts, as well as Sissi’s own poetry (she wrote 600 poems!) the four artists composed their own poetic collage about the Bavarian Princess who became Vienna’s Empress.
The project was born through the collab...
Sisi, the migrant, the poet, criss crossing cultural borders – a remix created and presented by Sandra Gugic, Augusta Laar, Judith Pfeifer und Sophie Reyer. Using texts and letters, articles and scripts, as well as Sissi’s own poetry (she wrote 600 poems!) the four artists composed their own poetic collage about the Bavarian Princess who became Vienna’s Empress.The project was born through the collab...
April 12, 2012
Freaks! at Merc's World
It's publication day and I just received mycopy of Freaks!Yikes!Stories? Comix? Yes, but.
The stories in Freaks are written by Caroline Smailesand Nik Perring, and the illustrations areby Darren Craske. There's depth to the insights that at first view may look like they'rezapping all over the surface. Superpowers galore, and dedicated: 'To all who, if only for amoment, felt that they didn't belong', Freaks is rightup my neck of the alley! But don't just believe me. Read on.
"Darkly humorous...
