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Yesterday, for the first time in a few weeks I took a look at the draft program for the Emerging Writers’ Festival. I don’t know how much we’re revealing about it before the program launch on 4 May, so I’m just going to say this: Holy shit, I love this festival. On the 2012 program so […]
July 12, 2011
I’ve written about it before, but the ripples of #ewf11 just keep on lapping at the edges of my mind. And coming out in stupid metaphors that don’t make sense. Here are the things that I’m finding myself still thinking about two months later. People The EWF team was definitely a highlight. It was a […]
June 29, 2011
Yesterday afternoon I spent about 45 minutes exploring the State Library of Victoria building. It was research for a project I’m working on for October (check out its website if you want more information; I’m still getting my head around it). Research involved taking a few photos. I’ll have to go back and see a […]
June 14, 2011
So said a friend who, like me, has had many festival and conference experiences. She’s in London and I was telling her all about the fantasticness of the Emerging Writers’ Festival. When you work on an arts festival you spend every waking moment with the same group people for a concentrated period of time and […]
March 15, 2011
I put together my photo post about my first month in Melbourne knowing full well that it was a lop-sided view of what it’s been like. It’s all true but it’s not the complete story. A big move, even between cities as similar as Melbourne and Brisbane, is a shock to the system. This is […]
March 9, 2011
It’s been just over a month since I moved to Melbourne. Here’s what I’ve been up to.
February 14, 2011
Over the next three weeks I have about 20 meet-up-and-catch-up meetings scheduled and I am looking forward to them as well as thinking very seriously about how to approach them and what I want to get out of them. About a third of them are with people who have already told me they might have […]
February 7, 2011
After my first couple of days in Melbourne I have had a few suspicions confirmed: 1. A dryish 17°C is the perfect environment when you have been getting brow-beaten by 35°C and 100% humidity for two solid months. 2. My skin does not appreciate the humidity suddenly disappearing and I was right to bring my […]
April 4, 2012
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