My favourite bookish podcasts – for now
For no good reason, here’s a list of some of my favourite podcasts – mostly bookish, all completely fascinating.
It is solved by walking
Walking makes us better writers. It helps us to think things through, to arrive at solutions, or to at least achieve clarity about some of the problems that beset us.
An acquisition, a shortlisting and a scholarship!
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, and I’m beyond delighted to have made the cut; ‘for a biography of Louisa Lawson, newspaper proprietor, poet, suffragist and mother of Henry Lawson.’ What a strong list and what an honour to be included in it. Although those of you who’ve…
Brave New (online) World
Hands up if you’re quite the expert at videoconferencing now. Got your lighting all sorted? Your headphone hair? De rigueur Indigenous artwork behind you? With the onset of the COVID-19 shutdowns, the Australian literary community has moved its events online with commendable alacrity. A few organisations, like the Wheeler Centre, were ahead of the curve….