by Mic Loves Books | Dec 20, 2019 | Round-ups
I had the best of intentions to get this done on the scheduled date but we all know that life gets in the way sometimes. I am backdating this post to it’s scheduled date, the day that the Adelaide Hills were blazing. I was out in the morning and returned home...
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 Marisa Wikramanayake | Jan 28, 2015 | Yearly wrap-up
The Australian Women Writers challenge received 1578 reviews in 2014. The majority of the books reviewed are, of course, fiction. But we over here in our little nonfiction corner of the challenge are not doing too badly ourselves. And what you will find is that we...
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 Marisa Wikramanayake | Jun 29, 2014 | Round-ups
It’s now halfway through the year at Australian Women Writers and while we have all dabbled happily in fiction of all forms and genres, some of us want something based not in worlds woven for our pleasure but more in the reality we know and experience right now....