October 9, 2009 – 4:59 pm
Here’s 5th Wall’s most excellent wrap-up of This is Not Art and the National Young Writers Festival. And here are some more of Estelle’s awesome interviews from NYWF.
Katie Jacobs’ dispatches from Ubud, are being featured on Beattie’s Book Blog. Bookman – I met your lovely correspondent, hopefully one day I’ll meet you too!
I’ll blog more about [...]
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September 16, 2009 – 9:04 pm
Madness, and much excitement.
In October I am off to the National Young Writers Festival and the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, back to back – seven panels.
And the past month has been one of changes and revelations – but more on those in time.
Now, I would like to tell you what I am doing at [...]
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September 12, 2009 – 8:32 pm
Recorded during the event ‘See What I’m Talking About’, Overload Poetry Festival 2009. Response to Andrew Watson’s photograph (in background). Video by my lovely sister Sonja Meyer. Here’s a review of the whole event by Simonne Michelle Wells on the Overland blog.
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Tagged Andrew Watson, Angela Meyer, ecphrasia, ekphrasis, ekphrastic, hunger, Longing and the Aftermath of Something, my work, my writing, passion, performance poetry, poetry, poetry reading, spoken word
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I have been asked a few times lately what’s happening with this novel manuscript, as people know I’m also working on a new one. Well lit-lovelies, here’s the juice.
I’m restructuring, rewriting, adding, subtracting, overhauling Smoke & Dancing this long weekend.
This is the story so far, in point form (because my brain is mush after the first day’s work!)
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Chris Currie has pulled back the curtain and revealed our names alongside our stories after his ‘Sneaky Celebrity Writers Month’ on Furious Horses in February. Krissy Kneen was the one who guessed the most correctly and won a grand Obama-themed prize. Lucky thing!
Here is my story ‘Velocity‘.
Also – Krissy is herself having guest writer contributors on her blog, [...]
All the somebody people (a round-up of some lit stuff going on here, there, everywhere)
Here’s 5th Wall’s most excellent wrap-up of This is Not Art and the National Young Writers Festival. And here are some more of Estelle’s awesome interviews from NYWF.
Katie Jacobs’ dispatches from Ubud, are being featured on Beattie’s Book Blog. Bookman – I met your lovely correspondent, hopefully one day I’ll meet you too!
I’ll blog more about [...]