by Marisa Wikramanayake | Mar 25, 2015 | Round-ups
In the first two months of the challenge for 2015, we are playing favourites. We have provided the stage and you have told us the program for this vaudeville variety show and who should strut and tread the boards to high acclaim. I am going to have to dust off my top...
by Marisa Wikramanayake | Feb 25, 2015 | Round-ups
These past two months have rushed past us rather quickly and in equal quick succession we have reviewed our way through fourteen non-fiction titles here at Australian Women Writers. Not bad but we need to step up our game. It’s what we are reading about as well...
by Marisa Wikramanayake | Jan 29, 2015 | Yearly wrap-up
Sometimes the best things come in small bits and pieces, in little bites and nibbles. It is an art form in itself to attempt to convey what you want to say in a storyline that is restricted by a word limit and yet still have the words sing. It’s difficult to...
by Marisa Wikramanayake | Jan 28, 2015 | Yearly wrap-up
The Australian Women Writers challenge received 1578 reviews in 2014. The majority of the books reviewed are, of course, fiction. But we over here in our little nonfiction corner of the challenge are not doing too badly ourselves. And what you will find is that we...
by Marisa Wikramanayake | Nov 21, 2014 | Interviews
I can’t imagine ever not wanting to tell stories. – Annabel Smith In case you have been living under a rock, our very own Annabel Smith, she of the interviewing and other exciting things on Australian Women Writers, is not only an Australian and female but also...