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Australian Public Intellectual [API] NetworkOn 26 December 1933 Katharine Susannah Prichard, ill and thin, was helped down the gangplank onto the Fremantle wharf. Earlier, in London during her return trip from a voyage to the Soviet Union, she had learned from a newspaper headline that her husband, Captain Hugo Throssell VC, had committed ...
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Self-Publishing in a Children's World ~ Guest Post by Andrew McDonald · SPUNC: Small Press Underground Networking CommunityWhen my first children’s book – The Greatest Blogger in the World – was published earlier this year by Hardie Grant Egmont, a friend said to me, ‘Well, thank GOD you didn’t have to self-publish!’ It was a funny comment – haha and strange. Self-publishing is generally scoffed at in publishing ...
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Mentor as anything | The AustralianMentor as anything From: WHEN Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka agreed to mentor young Australian writer Tara June Winch last year, he decided his first task was to bridge the vast status gap between them. The Nigerian writer, academic and political activist is one of the giants of contemporary ...
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Bakowski poetry news: An open letter to Kathy Charles and other writers/poetsI read HOLLYWOOD ENDING in two sittings. Reading it has made me order as an inter-library loan, DAY OF THE LOCUST to re-read. It also made me think about the welfare hotel where I lived (not on welfare) in downtown LA in the 1980's, catching LA buses, admiring the labels of NIGHT TRAIN (white ...
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Essays of the public pen | The Australian'THIS book was written without my knowledge," says Zadie Smith in the preface to Changing my Mind. By her account, just as life is what happens while you're busy making plans, this collection of essays assembled itself by accident when Smith found herself unable to complete her fourth novel or ...
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Beyond Borders: the future of bookselling | Feature | Culture | The ObserverBorders has gone belly-up, Amazon thrives, and doom-mongers are proclaiming the death of literature on the high street. But this could be the opening of a fine new chapter…
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Australian Fabian Society : Young Writers CompetitionThe Young Writers Competition is open to 18-28 year old Australians who have progressive and practical solutions to the big issues facing Australia today and can communicate that idea in a 700–1000 word opinion piece.
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Melting Pots and Digital Gateways - by Laurie Steed · SPUNC: Small Press Underground Networking CommunityWhen researching publishing, one often finds bold and surprising predictions. In his 2001 book Futureconsumer.com, Frank Feather predicted eBooks would be outselling print versions by 2009.
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Rapper with a heart of a poet slams stereotypes - Music - EntertainmentThe 25-year-old Malaysian-Australian has the audience rapt, listening to his mixture of brash hip hop and wordplay as he unravels stories of growing up in the rural NSW town Queanbeyan, navigating issues of race and identity, artistic inspiration, politics and family.
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Perth Writers Festival - Perth FestivalPerth Writers Festival - Perth Festival
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