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October 14, 2015
WILAA Steering Committee Announcement
Seeing Women in Literary Arts Australia come to life has been one of the proudest moments of my professional life. We launched back in June, and since then my co-conspirators Lisa Dempster and Kate Callingham and I have been quietly working behind the scenes pushing things along. The most important part of this was forming a steering committee to shape what WILAA will become.
Our aimis deceptively simple — to foster community and promote women in the literary arts — but cannot be authentic u...
October 12, 2015
Triple RRR Review: The Natural Way of Things
This morning I joined the Breakfasters on Triple RRR to review Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things. It was a pleasure to talk about a book that has settled so uncomfortably (in a good way) into my mind.
You can listen to the podcast if you missed it.
September 28, 2015
Triple RRR Review: Becoming Kirrali Lewis
This morning I joined the Breakfasters on Triple RRR to review Jane Harrison’s Becoming Kirrali Lewis. This gem of a book hasn’t had nearly the coverage it deserves, so I was pleased to sing its praises on air.
You can listen to the podcast if you missed it.
July 9, 2015
Independent Publishing Conference: Small Press Network
I love the Small Press Network. It’s an organisation that provides support to independent publishers who are producingfantastic work in a rapidly changing landscape. Organisations like this, which operate off the tiniest of budgets and offer their members such vital support, are integralto a healthy literature sector.
Having been to a previous Independent Publishing Conference I was pretty stoked when Mary from SPN reached out to ask if I’d be interested in taking on the role of coordinating...
June 10, 2015
Man Up: support your fellow writers
I had my first piece of writing published online at Overland today, which is pretty exciting. Overland have been publishing some really great, challenging articles about writing/writers lately, and I feltthat this challenge to men in our industry would be perfectly at home there.
The article was one I wanted to write because I believe there are men who do want to be good allies, but sometimes they don’t know how. For those men, I hope there are some ideas here that give them practical ways to...
June 7, 2015
#writingwhilefemale at EWF 2015
I had such an amazing time at the Emerging Writers’ Festival #writingwhilefemale day. I sat at the back of the room listening intently and tweeting madly, watching a room full of women share skills, network, support each other and generally live it up. AmaryllisGacioppo did an amazing job of programming the day, and the whole EWF team (particularly Kate Callingham) did so much work to bring this to fruition.
I had the pleasure of telling the women in the room about the formation of WILAA, ma...
June 5, 2015
Launch of Women in Literary Arts Australia
Today is a day I have been eagerly anticipating for a long time. I finally get to share the project I’ve been working on for months, Women in Literary Arts Australia. I’m proud to have been working with Kate Callingham and Lisa Dempster on this, two women I respect and admire so much. We saw a need for something that supported the women in our industry to gain professional development, better networks and ways to work together more effectively. We committed to taking the first steps to creat...
April 7, 2015
MICF Review 2015 – Stuart Bowden: Before Us
The latest tale from storyteller Stuart Bowden delivers a melancholic and bittersweet hour of entertainment.
Before us were our parents, and our collective human race. Before the lime green bulbous creation on stage before us were also her parents, her collective race, but they’re all dead now she tells us. This is the true story of her death, her extinction.
The latest of Stuart Bowden’s creations is this forest-dwelling creature living alone under a rock. In a mix of storytelling, dance an...
April 1, 2015
MICF 2015 – Three down, infinity to go…
I started my MICF 2015 off with a great night. This photo was captured by the MICF official Jeez Louise photographer, who is dashing around asking audiences about their favourite female comics. I usually avoid being photographed like the plague, but couldn’t resist sharing how I’d enjoyed my darling friend Sarah Bennetto’s show. It was the first I saw this year, in the Ladies Lounge at the Forum, and it was such a heartwarmingly lovely way to kick off my festival. Sarah is an effervescent jo...
March 29, 2015
MICF 2015
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2015 kicks off today, and it looks to be a bumper year. I have managed to create an ambitious schedule where I attempt to fit in all the shows I would like to see, but it is hard to balance the realistic aims of seeing as many as I would like with the reality of writing reviews and features on them all.
I’ll be updating here with reviews after they have been published on their original sites (I’m reviewing for Arts Hub and Lip), and I hope to have a lo...
