Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) I am Caroline Petit. Black Lambs re-imagines the intimate lives of the naturalist, explorer and diplomat, François, the Count de Castelnau and his much younger Brazilian mistress Carolina Fonçeca. The scene occurs in 1861 at a Paris theatre.
Archive for February, 2012
Writer-a-Day: Caroline Petit reading from “Black Lambs”
Posted in Historical Fiction, Varuna Alumni, Victoria, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Brazilian mistress, diplomat, explorer, naturalist, Paris Theatre, writing on February 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Writer-a-Day: Chris Raja reading from “The Burning Elephant”
Posted in Northern Territory, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Hindu priests, Indian police, rampaging elephant, school children, Varuna Longlines Program, writing on February 28, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hi, it’s Chris Raja reading from The Burning Elephant. ‘Get away,’ commanded the stern-faced inspector with a stick in one hand and a rifle in another. ‘Get away, all of you, this instant!’
Writer-a-Day: Mary Hickson reading from “Almost Annapurna”
Posted in NSW, Travel Memoir, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Base Camp, climbing, exhaustion, travel memoir, trekking, writing on February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hi, my name is Mary Hickson and this is a reading from my travel memoir, ‘Almost Annapurna’; the chapter is called ‘Holy Mountain’
Writer-a-Day: Sandy Bigna reading from “Scar”
Posted in A.C.T., Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, YA Fiction, tagged dragon, horseriding, protection, sisters, spray painting, tattoo, writing on February 26, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hi, my name’s Sandy Bigna and I’ll be reading from my young adult manuscript ‘Scar.’ My novel tells the story of Frankie who runs riot with her spray-can and gets sent to the Mountain Valley residential centre for girls after spray-painting [...]
Writer-a-Day: Mary Ryan reading two poems of travel in Berlin and Darjeeling
Posted in Poetry, Varuna Alumni, Victoria, tagged Berlin, Darjeeling, dogs, Golden Gallery, Schloss Charlottenburg, writing on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) Hello. My name is Mary Ryan. I wrote these two poems of travel in very different places – Berlin and Darjeeling. The title of the first poem is Solo.
Writer-a-Day: Peggy Frew reading from “Hope Farm”
Posted in Fiction, Varuna Alumni, Victoria, Writer-a-Day recording on February 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) Hello, my name’s Peggy Frew and I’m going to read from a novel I’m working on called “Hope Farm”.
Writer-a-Day: Gretchen Shirm reading from “The Forgetting Curve”
Posted in Fiction, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged journalist, shark, weakness, witness, writing on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) My name’s Gretchen Shirm and this is an extract from the start of my novel called The Forgetting Curve which will be published early next year by Scribe.
Writer-a-Day: Elisabeth Hanscombe reading from “Broken Teeth”
Posted in Creative Non-Fiction, Varuna Alumni, Victoria, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged dentist, incest, psychology, raw nerve, silent tears, sister, writing on February 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hi, I’m Elisabeth Hanscombe and I’m reading from a work in progress “Broken Teeth”. When I run my tongue along the top of my teeth I find jagged edges. If I push down hard, bits crumble away. I try not to [...]
Writer-a-Day: Bo Henley reading from “The Fatal Span”
Posted in Crime Writing, South Australia, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged evidence, intellectual terrorist, Senate enquiry, writing on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) Hi, this is Bo Henley, and I’m reading from my crime fiction novel, The Fatal Span.
