by Elizabeth Lhuede | Jun 7, 2023 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of forgotten Australian women writers. Florence Baverstock, poet, short story writer, journalist and editor, was born Louisa Florence Blair in 1860. Her father, David Blair, emigrated to Australia from Ireland in 1850 and...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | May 3, 2023 | Essay
I don’t know how I came across the name of Norah Skeffington Carroll. At some point during my many excursions into Trove, her name was scrawled on the back of an envelope where I put my mug of tea. Perhaps I saw it in a contents list for The Observer (Adelaide), or...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Apr 4, 2023 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede This latest essay in our forgotten author series focusses on Margaret Ann McCarter née Kinahan (1861-1913), aka Mrs McCarter. Finding forgotten authors is sometimes a matter of luck. Last year, I was working on an entry for Marjorie Weatherley,...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Sep 9, 2018 | Spotlights
Welcome to Sunday Spotlight. Today our guest is Pip Drysdale, a debut author from Perth whose psychological thriller, The Sunday Girl, was released on the 1st September. When did you start writing and what was the catalyst? I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t a...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Nov 2, 2017 | Memes/Challenges
Entries for our AWW Bingo giveaway closed on October 31 and we now have a winner. Congratulations to Jennifer Cameron-Smith, our Bingo winner for 2017. Jennifer will receive a copy of Writing the Dream, kindly donated by Serenity Press. Jennifer completed the first...