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Byron Bay Writers Festival 2010 diary, part 1
A sun-drenched and possibly superficial series of blog posts Around 9pm on Wednesday night I rolled into Gold Coast airport. My talented friend Omar Musa was on the same bus into Byron and we decided...
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Some notes on the 'new world' of publishing
On the weekend I was a guest of the Write Around the Murray Festival in Albury. Besides giving a blogging/social media workshop, I was on a panel called The New World of Publishing alongside author...
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Blogging for beginners: a short course at the NSW Writers’ Centre
Are you keen to give blogging a go but don’t know where to start? I’m teaching a short course at the NSW Writers’ Centre in March. The full description is here. I must stress that this is definitely a...
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On blogging
In the lead-up to my ‘Blogging for Beginners’ course this weekend for the NSW Writers’ Centre, I answer some common questions I get asked about my blogging life…
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Best Australian Blogs 2012 Competition: enter now
I was very happy to be asked to be the judge of the Words and Writing Category again this year in The Sydney Writers’ Centre’s Best Australian Blogs Comp. The category winner last year was Bothersome...
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LiteraryMinded’s fifth blog anniversary spectacular! (part four)
Amy Espeseth asks: ‘Has/how has your fiction writing changed since you started LiteraryMinded?’ and John (Musings of a Literary Dilettante) asks: ‘how has reviewing books helped your own creative...
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ANZ LitLovers LitBlog wins ‘words’ category in 2012 Best Australian Blogs comp
The winners of the 2012 Sydney Writers’ Centre Best Australian Blogs competition have been announced. Once again this year I was the judge of the ‘words’ category. I also helped to choose the overall...
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On blogging, social media, reading & writing
I was recently interviewed by David Minh Tran at The Signal Express, a publication by Express Media. He asked me about my long-term blogging life, my thoughts on social media, my short stories, and he...
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Online writing at Offset Fest
Just a quick missive, I’ll post another author interview in the coming days… The Offset Creative Arts Festival is coming up in Melbourne, and I’m on a panel about online writing. The details are below...
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2012: cut, print, that’s a wrap & see you in February
2012 has been a crap year in some respects; a year of rejections, near misses and setbacks. There has been injury and some sickness. There has been grief. At times it has been hard to stay optimistic....
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I’m baaaaaack & upcoming events
Having a month off social media was wonderful, I’d highly recommend it. I was able to work on many different projects without distraction (and without comparing myself to others so much). Despite...
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Sydney Writers’ Festival 2013
Knausgaard The Sydney Writers’ Festival 2013 program has been announced! The line up is rockin’: from Norwegian literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, to actor/author Molly Ringwald, critic James...
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Blog narrative
‘Yet the clock is time, and time is lost, is bankrupt before it begins’—from Owls do Cry, Janet Frame. Recently I made two early blog posts private. Many times I have gone to do this but never have....
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Projects and publications, plus an opportunity for online writers
It’s been a while since I updated, so I’ll shove it all in one post. First of all, Happy New Year! 2014 was an incredible year for me, though it started out rocky (I was unemployed for about two...
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