This is the fourth year I've attended Sydney Writers Festival's Live and Local live-streamed events at the National Library of Australia. I nearly missed it this year because, somehow, I didn't see the usual advertising. However, I caught it just in time, and was able to attend an event that particularly interested me. For the … Continue reading Sydney Writers Festival 2022, Live and Local (Session 1, and only)
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Stella … 10 years
While the Stella Prize isn't quite 10 years old, next year will see the awarding of the 10th prize. With that landmark in its sights, the Stella people decided to tweak the prize criteria, and have added single-author poetry collections to the forms eligible for the prize. An excellent move. Around the same time, they … Continue reading Stella … 10 years
F*ck Covid: An Online Literary Affair (2)
This is the second of my two posts on the F*CK COVID online-only event. My first post introduced it and covered the fiction session. This post will report on the non-fiction session. I'll start by noting that while the first session involved established authors, this one, I think it's fair to say, involved emerging writers, who … Continue reading F*ck Covid: An Online Literary Affair (2)
F*ck Covid: An Online Literary Affair (1)
An initiative of the ACT Writers Centre and its Creative Producer Nigel Featherstone, F*CK COVID, was an online-only event. It comprised two panel discussions, featuring "four of Australia’s most exciting literary voices", one focused on fiction, and the other non-fiction. I will report on these in separate posts. Both sessions included the authors reading from their books … Continue reading F*ck Covid: An Online Literary Affair (1)
Sydney Writers Festival 2021, Live and Local (Session 2)
My second Sydney Writers Festival's Live and Local event for 2021 was an hour after the first one. This left me time to fill in. It was disappointing that the National Library's Bookplate Cafe was closed by then, which I think has happened in previous years. It would have been nice to sit down with … Continue reading Sydney Writers Festival 2021, Live and Local (Session 2)
Sydney Writers Festival 2021, Live and Local (Session 1)
This is the third year I've attended Sydney Writers Festival's Live and Local live-streamed events at the National Library of Australia. More often than not, I attend these events alone, but I was lucky to find that one of our wonderful local authors, Karen Viggers, was also attending alone, so I had company in my … Continue reading Sydney Writers Festival 2021, Live and Local (Session 1)
Sydney Writers Festival 2019, Live and Local (Session 1)
As in 2018, selected Sydney Writers Festival events were live-streamed this year to 35 sites, including Canberra's National Library of Australia (#SWFLiveAndLocal). I had planned to attend most of Saturday's events, but then our annual day-trip to our friends' place in the country came up, and that's unmissable, so I only attended the last event … Continue reading Sydney Writers Festival 2019, Live and Local (Session 1)
Sydney Writers Festival 2018, Live-streaming (Session 2)
I only managed one session a day at the SWF's live-streaming program at the National Library of Australia, and on day 2, I picked a doozy! It was such fun, I forgot to take a pic! Annabel Crabb's BooKwiz, Saturday 5 May, 4.30pm Panel: Leigh Sales, Richard Fidler, Julia Zemiro, Tim Minchin, Annabel Crabb (MC) Of … Continue reading Sydney Writers Festival 2018, Live-streaming (Session 2)
Sydney Writers Festival 2018, Live-streaming (Session 1)
May is such a busy month for birthdays and anniversaries in the Gums world that I hardly ever get to the Sydney Writers Festival, even though it is not much more than 3 hours drive away. I was consequently thrilled to discover that this year the National Library of Australia, Canberra, would be one of … Continue reading Sydney Writers Festival 2018, Live-streaming (Session 1)
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