by Marisa Wikramanayake | Mar 24, 2017 | Round-ups
As always before we start, I wish to pay my respects to the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which I work, live and play: the Whajuk/Nyoongar people. May your campfires be always burning. This land was never seceded and has always been and always will...
by Marisa Wikramanayake | Mar 21, 2014 | Interviews
Two years ago, I slipped through a door into a convention room in Perth and sat down to listen to Katherine Howell. What intrigued me was part of the blurb for the session – Katherine Howell had been a paramedic for fifteen years before she had her crime fiction...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Jan 31, 2012 | Guest Posts, Reviews
Last year I stood in the authors’ green room at the Brisbane Writers Festival while friend and author Veny Armanno introduced me to one of my writing heroes, Kate Grenville. I’m not sure what I gabbled out: whether I told her about the snail-mail fan letter I’d sent...
