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...
by Louise Falconer | Sep 7, 2017 | Guest Posts, Interviews
A little while ago, I speculatively turned up to a book event as part of the Woodend Winter’s Arts Festival. Since we’d arrived in Woodend, I’d been having an internal debate about whether to buy a ticket to this event. To go, I’d have to get...
by Meg Brayshaw | Aug 28, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Above my desk I keep a black and white photograph of a woman sitting outside on a bench in a checked house dress, casually leaning next to an enormous pile of papers. The woman is Eleanor Dark, and the pile of papers is the manuscript for Storm of Time (1948), the...
by ladyredjess | Aug 24, 2017 | Guest Posts
Today we’re very happy to have a guest post from writer Jessica Davidson on the importance of diverse representations of gender and sexuality in YA literature. Jessica is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern Queensland, studying creative industries with...