Emerging Writers Festival 2016 – Picks and Pans
Feeling that I should spend my spare time actually writing, rather than going to writers festivals, has meant that I haven’t attended a festival in quite a while. So I’d forgotten how much fun they can be. Or is it just that they seem more fun now that I actually know some people there? Either…
Stella Prize Longlist 2016
It was standing room only in the Spiegeltent tonight, at the launch of the Stella Sparks campaign and the announcement of the 2016 Stella Prize longlist. Seven wonderful Australian writers (of fiction and non-fiction, prose and songs) each spoke to the assembled literati about Australian women writers that have inspired, provoked and moved them. Carrie…