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 TheresaSmithWrites | Oct 13, 2017 | Interviews
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Odette Kelada, author of Drawing Sybylla, a novel that explores the real and imagined lives of Australia’s writing women. ~~~~ In your acknowledgements for Drawing Sybylla, you tell us that it is a story that emerged from...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Oct 8, 2017 | Spotlights
Joan O’Hagan (1926−2014) published four crime novels during her lifetime and was working on a fifth novel – a story about St Jerome – when she died in 2014. Her daughter, Denise, decided to publish the book and Jerome and His Women came out in 2015...
by TheresaSmithWrites | Sep 29, 2017 | News
Winner of the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript, Drawing Sybylla is a novel about the challenges women writers have faced in pursuing the writing life. On stage, a woman named Sybil Jones is making a speech. She is talking about the...
by Narelle Ontivero | Aug 12, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
“The girlie loves her bath but the minute I take her out she screams and screams till by the time I have her dressed she has me reduced to tears also. Then she smiles complacently as if that were her sole object and falls into a lovely sleep. She and I both had an...
