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Many moons ago, Jessica White tagged me in a ‘blog hop’. I only had to answer five questions, but it has taken me more than a month to get to it. In my defence: the questions were HARD! What am I working on now? I’m a bit of a bower-bird as a writer: always attracted…
I remember discovering this poem once, which evoked that particular kind of feeling – a cross between pain, nostalgia and something else – that is akin to the feeling you get when you put your tongue into the place where your tooth used to be. This was many years ago. It was a poem by C. D. Wright…
One of my dearest friends is a writer. Well, actually, many of my dearest friends are writers, but one of them recently published a new book, Sisterhood. While her previous novel, Mira Falling, was published by Hachette, with this one she’s decided to publish an ebook, via Amazon. I read the book as you read friends books:…
Over at Jennifer Byrne’s The Book Club, they’re broadcasting a series of conversations connecting literature and the Seven Deadly Sins. It’s an interesting thing, watching that show. Half of me loves just sitting back and listening, but there’s another part of me that really wants to get involved in the conversation. So, here’s my (and…
I’m usually pretty resistant to the kind of colour-by-numbers approach that many Hollywood screenwriters seem to recommend. It works fine for them, most of the time, but it’s not the process for me. My own process is more organic and chaotic, though it’s also contained and reliable. (I AM going to post some autobiographical process-porn…
Need something exciting, strange and beautiful to read? Something shocking and wonderful? Then you should check out Maria Arena’s new novel, Sisterhood. Abandoned at St Mary’s Boarding School for Girls, Heather thought life couldn’t get much worse. She was wrong. Waiting for her is the malevolent Sister Merce. As the danger to Heather increases, hope arrives…
The following is the proposal for a paper/presentation I’m hoping to deliver at the 2014 ANZSA (Australia and New Zealand Shakespearean Association) conference, Shakespearean Perceptions. The conference will take place at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, October 2-4, 2014. Abstract This paper is a creative excavation of the temporal and textual gaps in Shakespeare’s…
At night, the monster pads down the hall. Her bare feet are soft on the floorboards. Who’s that trip-trap-tripping down my hall? Who’s that rap-rip-rapping at my door? At night, the monster comes into my bed. She lies down beside me. Her hair is pale as wheat. Her lips are dark as cherries. Her skin…
I talk to the divine Ms Alex over at galactic Chat about lots of things: Rupetta, feminism, Wiscon and the Tiptree Award.
This is the abstract for a paper I’m hoping to deliver at the 2014 AAWP conference, Minding the Gap: Writing Across Thresholds and Fault Lines. The conference will take place in Wellington, New Zealand, 30 November — Throughout literary history, a number of women writers have taken on male noms de plume. Critics and other…