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Hi, this is Bo Henley, and I’m reading from my crime fiction novel, The Fatal Span. (more…)
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 »
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Hi, this is Bo Henley, and I’m reading from my crime fiction novel, The Fatal Span. (more…)
Posted in Fiction, South Australia, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Commonwealth Prize, Longlines, New Caledonia, rockpools, tree ferns, writing on February 14, 2012| 1 Comment »
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“Hi I’m Jane Turner Goldsmith and I’m reading from my novel Poinciana.
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Posted in Fiction, South Australia, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Dublin, Isola, literary mystery, Oscar Wilde, simian, writing on February 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »
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“Hello, my name is Angela Kingston and I’ll be reading an excerpt from my novel in progress, Requiescat. This scene centres on the nine year old Oscar Wilde. He’s sitting in Bray railway station in 1864. I’ll attempt the accents, apologies to any Irish listeners!
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Posted in Short fiction, South Australia, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Longlines, The Rest is Weight, UQP on November 15, 2011| 1 Comment »
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“I’m Jennifer Mills and I’m reading from a short story called The Taxi Driver which will be published in a collection of my short stories called The Rest is Weight, out in 2012 with UQP. You can hear the rest of this story on my blog: www.jenjen.com.au (more…)
Posted in Poetry, South Australia, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Anthropologist at the Ceremony, eucalypt leaves, sleeping dog, ticking of grass seed on October 7, 2011| 3 Comments »
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“Hello, I’m Rachael Mead and today I’ll be reading a poem from my poetry manuscript The Sixth Creek. The poem is called:
Anthropologist at the ceremony
The tree hangs in the valley,
a teacher leaning over a student’s shoulder.
Climbing out even a few feet
the ground swings away, distracted.
Posted in Prose, South Australia, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged "Be Like", Bradley McCann on October 1, 2011| 3 Comments »
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“Hi, I’m Bradley McCann and today I’ll be reading to you from a prose piece called Be Like.
It would be like creamy pudding, not brandy pudding. It’d be on the beach under starry sky, not in the mosh pit at a Guns and Roses concert. It’d be sipped, not skulled. It’d be hot, but it’d be the heat of sunrise, not the fire of open flame. It’d taste like cherries, fresh, crisp, sweet. Feel like cool sheets. Sound like soft gasps. Look like Eros and Psyche, tangled, skin. The atmosphere would be dark and hushed, but warm, not seductive.