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Archive for November, 2011
Writer-a-Day: Heather Cam reading from “The Majestic Rollerink”
Posted in NSW, Poetry, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Majestic Rollerink, Petersham, Poetry, South-East Asian diaspora, writing on November 30, 2011| 2 Comments »
Writer-a-Day: Susanne Gervay reading from “Always Jack”
Posted in Children's, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, YA Fiction, tagged anti-school bullying, breast cancer, Cancer Council, writing, Yellow Daffodil on November 29, 2011| 1 Comment »
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“Hi, my name’s Susanne Gervay. I’m a children’s and young adult author and I also write adult short stories.
One of my most renowned books I guess is a rite of passage book called I Am Jack. It’s become the major text on anti-school bullying and I’m rather proud of that … especially since my son was bullied. It has two other books. One is called Super Jack and one’s called Always Jack, which has just come out. Always Jack carries the Cancer Council Yellow Daffodil which I’m really proud of. And I wrote it for my kids and for all those out there who face cancer, both parents and children and families.
Here goes: (more…)
Writer-a-Day: Kate Grenville reading from “The Secret River”
Posted in A.C.T., Historical Fiction, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged convicts, penal colony, stars, The Thames, writing on November 28, 2011| 1 Comment »
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“Hello, this is Kate Grenville. I’m going to read from The Secret River.
The Alexander, with its cargo of convicts, had bucked over the face of the ocean for the better part of a year. Now it had fetched up at the end of the earth. There was no lock on the door of the hut where William Thornhill, transported for the term of his natural life, was passing his first night in His Majesty’s penal colony of New South Wales. There was hardly a door, barely a wall: only a flap of bark, a screen of sticks and mud. There was no need of lock, of door, of wall: this was a prison whose bars were ten thousand miles of water.
Writer-a-Day: Tom Lee reading “Circus in the English Countryside”
Posted in NSW, Short fiction, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged elephants, University of Western Sydney, writing on November 27, 2011| 1 Comment »
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This is Tom Lee reading “Circus in the English Countryside” from a sequence I call Adventures with Clare. (more…)
Writer-a-Day: Suzanne Leal reading from “Border Street”
Posted in Fiction, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Dachau, SS Officer, Varuna Fellowship for Writing Retreat, writing on November 26, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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“Hello my name is Suzanne Leal and I am reading from my novel Border Street.
Writer-a-Day: Chris Bishop reading from “When Lisa Was Alive and Dead”
Posted in A.C.T., Fiction, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged passion, Varuna Publisher Fellowship, writing on November 25, 2011| 5 Comments »
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“Hi, I’m Chris Bishop. I’m reading from When Lisa Was Alive and Dead.
And then she shows up at his place, skips from the road behind his house, throws herself over his fence, peers through his kitchen window all smiling eyes and eager insistence.
And he breathes her in. (more…)
Writer-a-Day: Katherine Seppings reading from “Paris in the Spring”
Posted in Memoir, Varuna Alumni, Victoria, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Longlines Varuna Residency, poverty-stricken streets, pregnant, The Winds of Barranquilla, writing on November 24, 2011| 6 Comments »
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“Hello, I’m Katherine Seppings. I’m going to read from my manuscript Paris in the Spring – a chapter called ‘The Winds of Barranquilla.’ (more…)
Writer-a-Day: Mireille Juchau reading from “The Weather Inside”
Posted in Fiction, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Eric Dark Flagship Fellowship, locusts, pain relief, plague, summer rain on November 23, 2011| 4 Comments »
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I’m Mireille Juchau and I’m reading from a new work called The Weather Inside (Photo by Bronwyn Rennex)
(more…)Writer-a-Day: Meera Atkinson reading from “Luna Alaska”
Posted in Fiction, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Anne Sexton, hallucinations, panic, possessed witch, UWS Writing and Society Research Centre, Velvet Underground on November 22, 2011| 2 Comments »
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“Hello, I’m Meera Atkinson and I’m reading from my novel in progress, Luna Alaska. The reading starts with an excerpt from the narrator’s old diary.
A memory of nothing remembered today and fear found me and felled me and left me alone with my end before them all sudden and strange and weak. What is it? What is it? Why now and where is he?
Lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.
A woman like that is not a woman quite.
I have been her kind (Anne Sexton)
Writer-a-Day: Ivy Alvarez reading “Hold”
Posted in Poetry, Varuna Alumni, Wales, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Guardian Poetry Workshop, lump of coal, sorrowing, writing on November 21, 2011| 9 Comments »
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“Hello, my name is Ivy Alvarez. I’ll be reading a poem titled ‘Hold’, which was published by the Guardian (UK), online, for their Poetry Workshop section, on the 4th of November, 2011. (Photograph by Tasmanian photographer Rachael Duncan) (more…)
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