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[Published on Meanjin.com.au, September 9 2011] One of the final events in Melbourne Writers Festival’s schools program, Writers and Their Craft asked authors Maile Meloy and Steven Amsterdam about the nuts and bolts of their practice. And while the discussion was geared towards the largely adolescent audience (Amsterdam’s Things We Didn’t See Coming has recently […]
August 30, 2011
[Published on Meanjin.com.au, August 20 2011] For anyone who dared to question the premise of Sophie Cunningham’s Big Ideas address, A Long Long Way to Go: Why We Still Need Feminism, Sunday night’s turnout alone said it all. She spoke before a packed BMW Edge, a sea of (mostly female) heads nodding in agreement and […]
August 28, 2011
[Published on Meanjin.com.au, August 28 2011] The experience of learning to read is one that I remember with strange clarity. When we lived in Cressy, a pinpoint inland town roughly an hour from Geelong, my parents bought me a subscription to a series of fairytales on tape to wile away the long drives to crèche. […]
August 27, 2011
[Published on Meanjin.com.au, August 27 2011] Hosted by Julianne Schultz of the Griffith Review, State of the (Literary) Nation bought together the editors our fellow literary journals – Sarah Kanowski of Island, Dominique Wilson of Wetink and Ivor Indyk of the recently discontinued Heat – to discuss the role the journal plays in Australia’s national […]
August 27, 2011
[Published on Meanjin.com.au, August 27 2011] When it was announced that Edinburgh got Jennifer Egan while we got Jonathan Franzen, I have to admit I was a little miffed. Of course, they’re both hot property on the writers festival circuit – A Visit from the Goon Squad and Freedom were the international literary juggernauts of […]
September 9, 2011
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