Tag Archives: Cate Kennedy

Guest review: Tom Conyers on Readings and Writings: Forty Years in Books

Jason Cotter and Michael Williams (eds)
2009
9781740668217
With Readings and Writings: Forty Years in Books, there doesn’t appear to have been an overriding theme or subject limitation placed on the contributors. Instead, the writers involved, who have all had supportive associations with Readings Books & Music (Melbourne) over the years, are given free reign. The result is [...]

Progressive writers

I’d like to introduce you to some of the writers who also participated in the Overland Masterclass for Progressive Writers, a week-and-a-half ago. Simonne and Maxine have written summaries of the workshop, if you want to know what it was all about. The dynamics were interesting - the  ‘progressive’ themes varied greatly, and were executed differently [...]

Through the Clock’s Workings

Through the Clock’s Workings is out! This is the anthology from the Remix My Lit project, edited by Amy Barker. My mash-up story ‘Again, the Healing Tickle (the Way Black Glitters)’ is the very last one in the collection.
Here’s the blurb for this very unique (and interactive) collection:
Through the Clock’s Workings
Edited by Amy Barker
Sydney University [...]

Newstead Short Story Tattoo

Pictured: The Fictitious Woman readers at the Dig Cafe: Eleanor Marney, Zoe Dattner (behind, who chaired), Carmel Bird, Cate Kennedy, Tiggy Johnson, Janet Barker, Josephine Rowe and moi.
The inaugural Newstead Short Story Tattoo took place 15 to 17 May 2009.
We gathered, we listened, we absorbed, we read, we learnt, we escaped, we were frightened and [...]

Again, the Healing Tickle (the Way Black Glitters): A Mash-Up

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. This is a short story I did for the Remix My Lit project. It’s a mash-up of ‘Renovator’s Heaven’ by Cate Kennedy, ‘Alchymical Romance’ by Lee Battersby, ‘The New Cage’ by Stefan Laszczuk, and ‘Beowulf in Brisbane’ by Philip Neilsen. Enjoy!
The man has Don Henley hair, reflected [...]

Nick Cave, Cate Kennedy, Paul Jennings in 2009

2009 will bring many delightful literary goodies. I am privileged to know of them as I wrote an article for Bookseller+Publisher entitled ‘The Ones to Watch 2009′ – it’s in the Summer issue, which has just come out. One on children’s books will be in the March ‘Junior’ issue (which I’m currently working on).
I can’t reveal too [...]

Dark Roots – an interview with Cate Kennedy

This interview is now to be published in Southerly Vol. 68, No. 3.
I am temporarily removing it from the blog as I highly encourage you to purchase a copy of this respected literary journal (Australia’s oldest), and support small press and Australian literature.
This issue will be celebrating the short fiction genre.
It’ll be out in [...]