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Conflux 10 appearances

I appear to be taking a year off from this blog. Which is long enough to have to re-learn how to get into it. Way to complicate things, Google and Blogger.
     Anyway, I'm breaking radio silence to bring you my schedule for next weekend's appearances at Conflux 10 in Canberra, where I am really pleased to be Guest of Honour, alongside Alisa Krasnostein.
     Here's what I'll be doing on the

2013 in review: an out-and-out skite

My four Aurealises, and my
Horror-Awards-bestowing 
gloves


I've been meaning to compile a list of all the Sea Hearts/ Rollrock achievements, and the end of the year provides a neat excuse, as well as the time, of course *waves cheerily to the day job*.

So here we go. Some of this is from last year, but I wanted all the glory in one place, so forgive me if it gets repetitive. Also, if anyone

Meanjin Tournament of Books...

...is all about watery themes this year, so the shortlist is very blue, except where it's green or black. And wonder of wonders, Sea Hearts (a) is on it and (b) has made it through the first round.

Sea Hearts is nominated for the IMPAC

I know, it's outlandish. But it's true. Me and Hilary. And, erm, 150 other authors/books. I am celebrating now, in the expectation of its not getting any further. We'll find out in April.

Not one, not two, but THREE reprints!

The Wagga residency was two weeks of energetic writing and leisurely exploring the very green countryside in that part of the Riverina, with Griffith Agricultural Show and Junee's Broadway Museum being highlights. Wagga's Museum of the Riverina was beautifully and professionally curated, too, but I also like a collection that's just everyone's old stuff piled into rooms with assorted labels (or

Wagga Wagga Residency - reading and workshop, too

I'll be leaving on Tuesday for Wagga Wagga, where I'll be the October (i.e. 1–15 October) writer-in-residence at Booranga Writers' Centre. Booranga Writers’ Centre, in case you don't know, "links up writers across the Riverina and provides professional development, networks and resources for readers and writers in Wagga, the Riverina Region, and Albury." My visit is supported by the NSW

Fredericksburg Academy 9th Grade of 2013, ahoy!

It’s great to see you in my blog’s comments, encountering “Singing My Sister Down” and trying to nut out various things about it.

I won’t answer any questions that are already answered here
or here, because it’s not very hard to search this blog for “Fredericksburg”, and I don’t think I should feed you when you’re perfectly good at holding a spoon yourselves. :D And I’m a bit pressed for time,

Sea Hearts wins a WA Premier's Book Award!

I was excited to fly to Perth on Monday to attend the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards at the State Reception Centre in King's Park.

Even more exciting was actually winning the Young Adult Fiction Award for the selkies. What a year they're having!

The awards website presents the judges' comments on each book, and says of Sea Hearts, "The orchestrated plot surges to a dramatic,

The Purgatorio event

Oh dear, look what you're in for if you'reavaricious and prodigal on earth.

"Purgatorio: Australia Today" is one event being held in conjunction with the Melbourne Writers Festival that's really unusual. Not just because it's readings, rather than panels, so it's actual literature, not talking-about-literature, for a change. But it's being held away from the usual Fed Square venues in St

Melbourne Writers Festival appearances

Here is my list of events at the Melbourne Writers Festival in the next week, starting on Friday with a thoroughly overstimulating day at the "final chapter" of the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference, which I saw kicked off in actual Edinburgh.

Last year I hung back terrified of all the brilliant brains around me, but this year I am being forced to participate by going on the "Style vs