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...
by ladyredjess | Nov 11, 2017 | Guest Posts, Spotlights
For our latest focus on Australian women writers with disability, we have a guest post post from Tsana Dolichva about the process the creation of Defying Doomsday, a collection of apocalypse-survival stories featuring protagonists with disabilities. Tsana is an...
by Jane Richards | Nov 10, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
“I read the manuscript at the weekend and I couldn’t put it down. We would like to publish.” Whenever we relay the contents of this email from the world’s biggest publisher, Random House, in one of our author talks, a buzz of excitement goes through the room. After...
by Narelle Ontivero | Oct 28, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Tasma, a little-known literary gem of colonial Australia, was the pseudonym of Jessie Catherine Huybers, later Mrs Charles Fraser, and afterwards Mrs Auguste Couvreur. As her collection of names suggest, Tasma lived an extraordinarily unconventional life as she...
