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Hi, I’m Chris McCourt and I’m reading from my novel “The Cleansing of Mahommed” which is being published by Harper Collins in April 2012.
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Writer-a-Day: Chris McCourt reading from “The Cleansing of Mahommed”
Posted in Fiction, HarperCollins, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged cleanliness, godliness, panic, Puritol, soap, writing on March 28, 2012| 2 Comments »
Writer-a-Day: Laurie Steed reading from “Family”
Posted in Fiction, Varuna Alumni, Western Australia, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged family break up, father, interlinked collection, mother, writing on March 25, 2012| 3 Comments »
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“Hi, my name’s Laurie Steed and I’ll be reading from my story “Family” which is from my interlinked collection You Don’t Belong Here. (more…)
Writer-a-Day: Denise Davies reading from “Everest Anonymous”
Posted in Fiction, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Base Camp Everest, fear of heights, genetic legacies, giraffe, sexy, slow blink rate, writing on March 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »
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“Hi, I’m Denise Davies and I would like to read from a work in progress entitled Everest Anonymous.
Writer-a-Day: Serena Parker reading from “The Clarity of Distance”
Posted in Fiction, Varuna Alumni, Victoria, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Aghan hillside, Germany, scouts, Soviets, weapons, writing on March 19, 2012| Leave a Comment »
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“Welcome, my name is Serena Parker, and today I’d like to read from the first chapter of my manuscript, titled The Clarity of Distance. (more…)
Writer-a-Day: Kate Gordon reading from “Thyla”
Posted in Fiction, Tasmania, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged blankets, Longlines, memory, nothingness, pain, writing on March 16, 2012| Leave a Comment »
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“My name’s Kate Gordon and I’m reading from my novel Thyla published by Random House Australia in 2011.
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Writer-a-Day: Lucie Stevens reading from “The Grace Stroke”
Posted in Fiction, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Charlemagne, magic realism, sea, soldiers, tide, writing on March 14, 2012| 3 Comments »
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“Hi, my name’s Lucie Stevens and I’ll be reading an extract from my novel The Grace Stroke.
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Writer-a-Day: Carol Major reading from “The Stone Hookers”
Posted in Fiction, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged con artist, liar, writing on March 12, 2012| 4 Comments »
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“Hi, this is Carol Major reading from a novel in progress called The Stone Hookers. (more…)
Writer-a-Day: Helen Hagemann reading from “The Ozone Cafe”
Posted in Fiction, Tyrone Guthrie Residency, Western Australia, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Greece, wife, writing on March 6, 2012| 3 Comments »
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Hello my name is Helen Hagemann. I’m going to read part of a chapter from my novel in progress, The Ozone Cafe.
Outside under the veranda, near a huge Lily Pily with flowers dripping pollen, he pulls out a striped hammock. He can’t quite get his legs in, so he smacks it against the outside post. It whips back and just as he catches it, he notices that the little black bird is back again, chit-chittering and fanning its tail under the shade of the laundry tank. (more…)
Writer-a-Day: Belinda Rule reading from “When I first met Martin”
Posted in Fiction, Victoria, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged CAL Creative Industries Career Fund, cooking, shagging, sleeping bags, tents, writing on March 4, 2012| 3 Comments »
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Hello, I’m Belinda Rule, and I’m reading today from my novel in progress, When I first met Martin, which is a working title.
His shape was bulky in the dark, labouring quietly over a chopping board. I went to him and laid my hand on his shoulder, then on his head.
I said, “Let me chop. You fry.” (more…)
Writer-a-Day: Penny Hanley reading from “Forty Shades of Green”
Posted in A.C.T., Fiction, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged art, family secret, loose woman, love, unwed mother, writing on March 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »
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“Hi, it’s Penny Hanley here and I’m going to read from a novel I’ve just rewritten called, Forty Shades of Green, about art and love and a family secret.
This is from Ch 10, An Unfamiliar Sky. In her tiny terrace in the Rocks, Miss Burnside offered Keira some tap water in an old Vegemite jar. Cobwebs draped the room’s corners. They sat at a grubby pine table. Miss Burnside refused to speak with a tape recorder going. She refused to have her picture taken. A pity, thought Keira, because the portrait of a skinny, wrinkled hag glaring from behind round-rimmed, smeary spectacles would have been a good contrast to the previous people she’d interviewed about the Surrealist painter Deirdre Wild. (more…)
