I won't get to many Melbourne Writers Festival events, because those of most interest to me clash with other commitments and responsibilities. This is a shame given this year's extensive digital program would enable me to attend my first ever MWF. Never mind, there will be other years. Nonetheless, I was thrilled to find a … Continue reading Melbourne Writers Festival 2020: Let me be brief
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Monday musings on Australian literature: Guest post from Michelle on our Brave New (online) World
Today, I present another Monday Musings guest post coordinated for me by Bill (The Australian Legend), this one from Michelle Scott Tucker, author of the wonderful Elizabeth Macarthur: A life at the edge of the world (my review). Thanks so much again to Bill and to Michelle for helping me out with my Monday Musings. Read on … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Guest post from Michelle on our Brave New (online) World
Monday musings on Australian literature: Guest post from Kate on anxiety, COVID and Aussie lit
Today, I present another Monday Musings guest post coordinated for me by Bill (The Australian Legend), this one from Kate (booksaremyfavouriteand best), she of Six Degrees of Separation fame. Bill suggested a topic to Kate - one applicable to her professional interests and to what we are currently experiencing - and it seems she ran with … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Guest post from Kate on anxiety, COVID and Aussie lit
Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (Online): Place, Family and the Weekend
I have now written three posts on last weekend's Yarra Valley Writers Festival (which you can find on this linked tag). Lisa (ANZLitLovers) also wrote up several sessions. Given Lisa has also covered the last three sessions I have yet to cover, I will, as I did in my last post, try to focus on a … Continue reading Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (Online): Place, Family and the Weekend
Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (online): If I tell you I’m going to have to kill you (Crime panel)
This is my second report of the sessions I attended of the first Yarra Valley Literary Festival. I hope to write up more, but you can also check Lisa's blog for her posts. She did not, however, attend Christos Tsiolkas - see my post - nor this crime panel. Like Lisa, I really read crime, but … Continue reading Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (online): If I tell you I’m going to have to kill you (Crime panel)
Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (online): Road to Damascus (Christos Tsiolkas with Angela Savage)
Today I attended several sessions of the first Yarra Valley Literary Festival, which the organisers turned around and converted to an online event with the arrival in our lives of COVID-19. I plan to write up a couple more sessions over the next week, when time permits, but you can also check Lisa's blog for her … Continue reading Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (online): Road to Damascus (Christos Tsiolkas with Angela Savage)
Writers in Residence: An Online Festival
With information coming from every which way, I'm not sure how I heard about the Writers in Residence online festival. Organised by The Writers Bloc and inspired by Isol-Aid, its aim was to "ask some of Australia's most exciting emerging writers to read from their new books" and share "what they've been reading in isolation". It … Continue reading Writers in Residence: An Online Festival
Living under COVID-19 (3)
It's been nearly three weeks since my second COVID-19 post, because, after all, if there's one thing you can say about living in these times, it's that the days just roll one into the other with not a lot of differentiation. You have to work hard, sometimes, to remember just what day it is. At … Continue reading Living under COVID-19 (3)
Writing War: A panel discussion about war and historical writing
In its original guise, I would not have been able to attend Writing war: A panel discussion featuring Nigel Featherstone, Melanie Myers and Simon Cleary because it was going to be held in Brisbane's Avid Readers bookstore. However, in one of those lucky COVID-19 silver linings, the discussion was transformed into an online ZOOM discussion and, hey presto, … Continue reading Writing War: A panel discussion about war and historical writing
Monday musings on Australian literature: Armchair travelling
Over at The Resident Judge of Port Phillip, Janine is publishing a series of travel posts on My non-trip in the year of coronavirus. You see, as she writes in her first post, published on April 3, she would, that day, have been "folding up the laptop, packing my case and taking up my passport all … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Armchair travelling
Whispering Gums 