…in which the audience gasps audibly at the mention of Twitter!
Official festival blogger Estelle and I are aptly blogging this morning’s session laptop by laptop, sandwich by sandwich, in a cafe overlooking one of the festival venues.
Jeff Sparrow spoke to Margaret Simons about Finding Meaning in the Media. Simons is a fellow Crikey blogger, and author of [...]
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Melbourne Writers Festival 2009 diary part four: finding meaning in the media
August 23, 2009 – 1:10 pm
The inability to relax (an experiment in the confessional)
June 14, 2009 – 2:24 pm
It’s not often that I feel calm. I have supernovas going off in my head, squirmy things in my muscles and fingertips. I’m sore all the time because I exercise so much. It’s one of the only ways to expend the energy, wear me down, expend the effort effort effort. And I love the zing [...]
Embracing the medium: what makes a successful cultural blog?
June 12, 2009 – 8:04 am
The following article is a slightly amended version of the speech I gave during the Emerging Writers’ Festival panel The Revolution Will Be Downloaded, May 2009.
In my reading of cultural blogs (particularly literary blogs), and through a growing audience for LiteraryMinded, I have found that some recurring elements exist in blogs which could be deemed successful. My measure of success [...]
LiteraryMinded turns two
May 9, 2009 – 9:24 am
Happy 2nd birthday to LiteraryMinded!
Two years! I was going to link to the very first review but to tell you the truth I find it clumsy, and my writing a little too presumptuous and bold. But this is a good thing because the cringe shows I have come quite a ways since that virgin blog [...]
Adelaide Should Not Be Shut Down
March 18, 2009 – 7:47 pm
I arrived home from Adelaide to find Lord Mayor of Melbourne had been quoted as saying Adelaide should be ’shut down’.
The feeling of oddness was still with me from traipsing up and down Hindley Street all weekend – sex shops and tittie bars (and cyber sex cafes – the point?); R&B-type slick and shiny clubs [...]
Numbers, Solitude, Cinnamon Cookies + New Voices
March 7, 2009 – 4:35 pm
According to my dashboard, this is my 200th post since I started this blog in May 2007. And you know what? In the past couple of years through this blog, my novel manuscripts, my short stories and thesis, and my work, I’m quite sure I have written over a million words. I mean, I probably [...]
Let’s Have a Conversation
February 28, 2009 – 1:59 pm
Good-weekend lit-lovelies,
Check out the crowd in the reading room! You can view some more pictures from The Death Mook launch here. This was absolutely the highlight of my week. I had to have a few wines before reading to deal with the nerves, damn them, and because there was such a big crowd! Dion and Lisa sold [...]
I’ve Joined the Twits, the Dead (or Undead) and More Festivals!
February 21, 2009 – 5:53 pm
I’m spending my Saturday making bookmarks for the blog to give out at the Format Festival next month (as it’s a DIY festival, I thought crafty-collage-style bookmarks would be apt). They’ll be on different colour cardboards with words, little images I like, and gel-pen artwork! It’s so much fun – I haven’t done craft for [...]
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Avatar: a mash-up
This piece is a mash-up of an undergrad essay from a couple of years ago, plus present thoughts, imaginings and speculation on the narrative of self in a virtual environment.
Storytelling is as old as humanity. The human has always actively projected him/herself into realms of fantasy (through song, art, drama, writing). Modernity advanced the visual aspect of [...]