by wadholloway | Mar 9, 2022 | Article, Guest Posts
by Jonathan Shaw. ‘Love Sonnets’, whose exuberant expressions of female desire – unprecedented in Australian literature – struck a chord with young men and women separated by World War One.
by whisperinggums | Feb 23, 2022 | Article
by Whispering Gums The first of a two-part series on sources, for those interested in reading and researching Australia’s 19th- and earlier 20th-century women writers, particularly those who may not have achieved prominence in their lifetimes, or whose works...
by wadholloway | Feb 9, 2022 | Article, Guest Posts
by Michelle Scott Tucker. As Aboriginal people had been doing orally and pictorially for 60,000 years, the European colonists used letters, diaries, drawings and paintings to share their stories, news, and hopes.
by Cindy Davies | Dec 12, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
My novel The Afghan Wife was launched on 25 November 2017 by Odyssey Books of Canberra. Odyssey is owned and operated by Michelle Lovi who accepted it for publication in February of the same year. It is set against the background of the Islamic revolution in Iran. In...
by ladyredjess | Nov 23, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Following on from Tsana Dolichva’s wonderful post on Defying Doomsday, we are very happy to feature a guest post from Anna Spargo-Ryan, a Melbourne-based author of The Gulf and The Paper House. Anna is also the winner of the 2016 Horne Prize for her essay...
by Morgan Burgess | Nov 21, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Ada Cambridge, astute social critic and author, began her writing career proper in 1875 to, as she put it, “add… to the family resources when they threatened to give out” (ADB), when she published the novel Up the Murray as a serial in the Australasian newspaper. She...