Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hello, my name is Alison Booth and I’m going to read to you part of the prologue to my second novel which was published with Random House Australia earlier this year and it’s called Indigo Sky:
Archive for December, 2011
Writer-a-Day: Alison Booth reading from “Indigo Sky”
Posted in A.C.T., Fiction, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged enclosed in this small space, Longlines, rising panic, writing on December 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Writer-a-Day: Maree Kimberley reading from “Dirt Circus League”
Posted in Queensland, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, YA Fiction, tagged abandoned wilderness resort, circus, cult, weird mob of kids, writing on December 14, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hi, I’m Maree Kimberley and I’m reading from my work in progress, a young adult novel, Dirt Circus League. ‘That’s the Dirt Circus League,’ Karen’s voice was low. ‘They’re one weird mob of kids.’ ‘They’re one talented mob of kids,’ said [...]
Writer-a-Day: Susan Beinart reading from “Thin Skin”
Posted in Fiction, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Jimi Hendrix afro, Mr Mandela, South African past, writing on December 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hi, I’m Susan Beinart reading from my novel, Thin Skin. Before Leon came that night, I pictured him on Mum’s hard kitchen chair. As if he were with us, below the painting of Mr Mandela, sharing lamb chops at the round [...]
Writer-a-Day: Rachael Briggs reading “Murder in New South Wales”
Posted in Poetry, Queensland, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged bowerbird, butcherbird, Currawong, Magpie, ring-necked plover, Val Vallis Poetry Award, writing on December 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) Hi, I’m Rachael Briggs and this is a poem called “Murder in New South Wales”. The currawong sat on the currawang amid the catkins gold and the curly, trilly song he sang he warbled black and bold.
Writer-a-Day: Kate Cole-Adams reading from “Till Human Voices Wake Us”
Posted in Nonfiction, Varuna Alumni, Victoria, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged anaesthesia, consciousness, memory, surgery, writing on December 11, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) Hi, I’m Kate Cole-Adams. I’m reading from a work in progress Till Human Voices Wake Us which is a non-fiction exploration of anaesthesia, memory and consciousness.
Writer-a-Day: Glenda Korporaal reading from “Marion’s Story”
Posted in Biography, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged architect, Castlecrag, Marion Mahony, Walter Burley Griffin, writing on December 10, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hi this is Glenda Korporaal and I’m reading to you from Marion’s Story. “It was by no means a case of love at first sight but it was madness when it struck.” So Marion Mahony would write later of her love [...]
Writer-a-Day: Louise D’Arcy reading from “Lilith Gets a Dog”
Posted in Short fiction, Varuna Alumni, Victoria, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged 50th Birthday, Age Short Story Award, dog, lawn, writing on December 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hi, I’m Louise D’Arcy reading from my short story ‘Lilith Gets a Dog’. Lilith, Alec and Marcy’s mother and Gerald’s wife, was standing on the front path surveying the lawn. She was thinking that if she were to step down off [...]
Writer-a-Day: Anne Mainsbridge reading from “Cold Vein”
Posted in Memoir, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged anorexia, Memoir Writing Masterclass, Stockholm clinic, writing on December 8, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hi, I’m Anne Mainsbridge and I’m reading from my Memoir Cold Vein, which is about the journey of a family through the illness of anorexia.
Writer-a-Day: Rosie Barter reading from my “Memoir: Grandpa Zac”
Posted in Memoir, Varuna Alumni, Western Australia, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Hydra, my grandfather's island, ouzo, writing on December 7, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Rosie Barter, from Perth Western Australia, an excerpt from my Memoir (September1963). I remember waking in my sleeping bag on that stony path along the sea cliff of Hydra. A full moon, thin as paper, clung to an ink-washed sky and, [...]
