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In the end we all fade to black: a ‘responsive’ interview with Kathy Charles, author of Hollywood Ending

Kathy Charles’ debut novel Hollywood Ending was recently released by Text Publishing. In my review for the October issue of Australian Book Review I said: ‘Kathy Charles creates a world both familiar and strange … Despite being highly, if darkly, entertaining, the book hints at deeper issues, such as the extent of superficial distraction in contemporary [...]

Birthday notes, more from NYWF/TiNA to come

What a lovely thing to wake up to on your birthday! I have somehow muscled out Justine Larbalestier for top spot on Copywrite’s Top 50 Australian Blogs for Writers. Thanks for reading and linking to me, lovely folks.
I will be writing more on NYWF/TiNA when I hit Bali (hopefully – depending on internet situation), or [...]

A ‘responsive’ interview with Kirsten Reed, author of The Ice Age

The Ice Age
Kirsten Reed
Text, 2009
9781921520747
Prompts: LiteraryMinded
Responses: Kirsten Reed
One of your own ‘on the road’ experiences…
I was seventeen, hitching a short distance (about forty miles; this was a leg of my journey for which there was no connecting bus). The sun was about to set, and I was starting to worry, as I stood by the [...]

Love, sex and intimacy with Krissy Kneen, author of Affection (a LiteraryMinded ‘responsive’ interview)

Affection: A Memoir of Love, Sex and Intimacy
Text Publishing
9781921520617
August (Australia)
Prompts: LiteraryMinded
Responses: Krissy Kneen
Things that are fast/things that are slow
Motorcycles.  Rollercoaster. Pick ups.  Orgasms.  All too fast.  Slow would be nice.  Slow is the ideal, something to aspire to.  It all ends too quickly.  Everything. And the people who have died.  People of my gene pool  [...]

Literary heroes

Today was the first day of the Overland Masterclass for Progressive Writers. There are nine of us, giving (hopefully) constructive feedback of each others’ stories, plus taking in feedback from Overlandassociate editor Rjurik Davidson. Each day, an established writer also participates in the workshop, and today it was Tony Birch. Tomorrow will be the incomparable [...]

LiteraryMinded turns two

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 [...]

I’ve Joined the Twits, the Dead (or Undead) and More Festivals!

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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