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Light the Dark: Perth vigil for Reza Berati and asylum seekers

After a stimulating Perth Writers Festival I joined writers Thomas Keneally, Rosie Scott, Debra Adelaide, Linda Jaivin, David Marr, Antony Loewenstein, and publisher Terri-Ann White at the Perth candlelight vigil for Reza Berati, the young Iranian asylum seeker who was tragically killed on Manus Island.

Debra Adelaide, Rosie Scott, Linda Jaivin and Tom Keneally

It was an understandably emotional event, as I’m sure were the countless other vigils going on around Australia in public places and pr...

The Great Unknown authors: Deborah Biancotti

This is the eleventh post published in conjunction with the release ofThe Great Unknown,where authors share their experience of writing eerie stories for the anthology.The Great Unknownis available fromBooktopia,Readings,Avid Reader,Fishpond(free shipping worldwide) and all good bookstores. You might also want to add it to your shelves onGoodreads.

Deborah Biancotti is a regular on genre fiction award lists, writing across a range ofurban fantasy, horror, science fiction and steampunk. Her boo...

Dear anonymous

Thank you, whoever you are, for renewing my Writers Vic membership for the next two years. What an incredibly generous gesture.

Since, it seems, you are interested in my work, let me reveal where the manuscript I’ve just begun is partly set, via Brian Cox:

Which is close to:

In the realm of the estate of:

South of:

And I conducted research while staying in:

Hopefully one day we can share a dram. Thank you again, it means so much x

Enter the joanne burns award: Flashing the Square

This year, along with Richard Holt, I’ll be judging the joanne burns award for microfiction and prose poems, tied in with the Flashing the Square project during Melbourne Writers’ Festival in August.

First prize for a microfiction or prose poem is $300. The winning and shortlisted entries will be published in the Spineless Wonders annual anthology along with work by invited writers.A small number of these works will go on to be produced as videos to be screened at Federation Square during the...

The Great Unknown authors: Chris Flynn

This is the tenth post published in conjunction with the release ofThe Great Unknown,where authors share their experience of writing eerie stories for the anthology.The Great Unknownis available fromBooktopia,Readings,Avid Reader,Fishpond(free shipping worldwide) and all good bookstores. You might also want to add it to your shelves onGoodreads.

Chris Flynn is the author ofA Tiger in Eden, and his second novel,The Glass Kingdom,will be out later this year. Here Flynn tells us about the impact...

Profits of Doom by Antony Loewenstein

Melbourne University Publishing

9780522858822 (paperback)

9780522864366 (ebook)

August 2013

In Profits of Doom, Antony Loewenstein investigates the effects of predatory, vulture or disaster capitalism on individuals, communities, the environment, and future prospects of entire countries. Loewenstein’s work is powerful because he goes to Afghanistan, Christmas Island, Papua New Guinea, and other places ravaged by greed, corruption, complacency, and misdirected aid. He takes us there, and he talks...

Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2014

Sweaty lit crowd

This year, the Premier’s Awards were held at Government House, in a palatial room of cream, blue and mint, complete with thrones. I arrived just as the talking began, on a dry, hot Melbourne night, and found a place to stand and fan my face with the nominee form.

In the young adult section, Barry Jonsberg won forMy Life as an Alphabet.He dedicated the prize to the memory of his Norwegian father, and two characters called ‘Sneaking Blanket’ and ‘Rolling Toilet Lid’, who featured...

Go Book Yourself

I have a guest post up on the fabulous tumblrGo Book Yourself, which features book recommendations by humans.

If you likeThe Bell Jarby Sylvia Plath, you’ll like… (click here).

The Great Unknown authors: Helen Richardson

This is the ninth post published in conjunction with the release ofThe Great Unknown,where authors share their experience of writing eerie stories for the anthology.The Great Unknownis available fromBooktopia,Readings,Avid Reader,Fishpond(free shipping worldwide) and all good bookstores. You might also want to add it to your shelves onGoodreads.

Helen Richardson is a writer and editor who lives in the Blue Mountains. She was a finalist in the Carmel Bird Short Fiction competition. Her story, ‘...

Perth Writers Festival 2014

I’m excited to be invited back to one of my favourite festivals, Perth Writers Festival, which runs from 20-23 Feb. I’m appearing in one event, chairing two others, and teaching a workshop on flash fiction. Hope to see some of you there?

More details on my sessions:

Sat 22 Feb

10 am

Grand Allusions (free, Romeo tent)

When the fictional heroes and heroines ofnovels are writers themselves, centuries ofliterary allusion and reference can creep intoa text. How important is literary allusion inthe nov...