Gravel Peter Goldsworthy Hamish Hamilton March 2010 (Australia) 9781926428192 Gravel is Peter Goldsworthy’s new collection of short stories – amusing and moving - covering a range of predominantly white middle-class characters in conflict with their own egos. But there are also stories exploring erotic awakening (something Goldsworthy did well in Everything I Knew) and others where [...]
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Cate Kennedy’s The World Beneath
December 10, 2009 – 8:10 am
Scribe September 2009 9781921372964 (Aus, Grove US) There’s no doubt Cate Kennedy is one of Australia’s most perceptive writers. Her short stories, which can be found in various journals and the collection Dark Roots, are rich in character and often contemplate moments of connection, all the misfires and failed connections, and their consequences. In The World Beneath, Rich wants to [...]
Progressive writers
July 23, 2009 – 7:29 am
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 [...]
Again, the Healing Tickle (the Way Black Glitters): A Mash-Up
December 6, 2008 – 11:13 am
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, [...]
Nick Cave, Cate Kennedy, Paul Jennings in 2009
November 26, 2008 – 7:53 am
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 [...]
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The big bucks: Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2011
Last night I went along to the ‘streamlined’ Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, run by the Wheeler Centre. The awards took place in the grand Plaza Ballroom (part of the Regent Theatre), built in 1929. The decadent entrance and room is apparently in the Spanish Rococo style, but it seemed very eclectic to me: nouveau flourishes, [...]