by Marisa Wikramanayake | Apr 18, 2015 | Article, News
As part of our focus on writers of divese heritage this month, AWW team member, Marisa Wikramanayake, was invited to write about the VIDA Count and her new database of female reviewers.* Marisa writes: On April 4, last week, the results of the 2014 VIDA Count were...
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 Kirsten Krauth | Aug 16, 2014 | Guest Posts, Interviews
At the recent Sydney Writers’ Festival, crime fiction writer Tara Moss appeared on a panel with Irvine Welsh and Damon Young, talking about writing the body. As she held her new memoir ‘The Fictional Woman’ up to the audience, I was drawn immediately...
by ladyredjess | Mar 23, 2013 | Round-ups
On the starting block for February’s reviews of themes of diversity is Subversive Reader’s write-up of Whisper, by Chrissie Keighery. This is the story of Demi, a regular 14 year old who becomes profoundly deaf after contracting meningitis, and who needs to learn how...
by AWW Admin | Dec 1, 2012 | Guest Posts, Reviews
Memory is not democratic. It creates its own hierarchy concerning what will be at the top and what will be at the bottom. Memory decides what it remembers and what it forgets, and what emerges from the daguerreotype. (p.142) Memory is the device employed by author...