Science fiction novel short listed for Age book of the year
Hi all, Steven Amsterdam’s novel Things We Didn’t See Coming, is on a short-list of five for the Age Book of the Year Awards. The novel “makes use of science fiction and apocalyptic themes” and much of it is set in the near future. The Age also says his writing “recalls the work of writers […]
The Emerging Writer’s Festival, part eight.
Hi all, The Best Way Forward was the last session I attended at Melbourne’s Emerging Writer’s Festival. It discussed avenues a writer could use to improve their writing. Steve Amsterdam told us a story that turned some of my prejudices around, but reinforced others. He was born in America to a literary agent mother. As […]
The Emerging Writer’s Festival part seven
Hi all, This is the seventh – yeah I’ve milked my attendance for all its worth – post on the Melbourne’s Emerging Writing Festival, held in the last weeks of May this year. I went to nine sessions over the second weekend. In this post I cover two sessions, the first, Out of the Mouth […]
The Emerging Writer’s Festival, part six.
Hi all, Day two of my weekend at Melbourne’s Emerging Writer’s Festival began with a session called Crashing, Smashing and Bashing Through. It was the first panel to have a real-life science fiction writer on it, so there is at least one emerging science-fiction writer getting published who has opinions on writing. His name was […]
Emerging Writer’s Festival, part five.
The Pitch was the final session of the Saturday I attended the Emerging Writer’s Festival. The ground floor hall of Melbourne’s town hall was, once again, packed with about 300 writers eager to be told, at least I was, that it wasn’t as hard to pitch to publishers as everybody else had said. This session […]
The emerging writer’s festival, part four.
Hi all, The Revolution will be Downloaded was the fourth session I attended at the Emerging Writer’s Festival. The spiel for the session suggested I might find out about new writing markets and ways to promote my writing online. The Yarra Room was full with writers eager to learn about new opportunities. Rachel Hills, a […]
Emerging Writer’s Festival, Part Three.
Hi all, The Great State Divide, during The Emerging Writer’s Festival, had a number of interstate writers debating what they thought made their state’s writing unique and different from that of the other states. The debaters included Lisette Ogg who works for the Queensland Writer’s Centre; Rachel Hennessy, her first novel, The Quakers, won the […]
The Emerging Writer’s Festival, part two.
Hi all, This is my second post on the Emerging Writer’s Festival that I attended in Melbourne on the 30th and 31st of May. My first post covered the session, Seven Enviable Lines. After that session I followed the crowd upstairs where about 150 of us crammed into the smaller, but slightly better lit, Yarra […]
Stupid myspace
Hi all, Remain calm Graham, it is not the end of the world. I just spent about an hour writing a beautiful post about the emerging writer’s festival only to have it disappear into the ether. I haven’t got a clue what I did or even if I did anything. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Because myspace has previously […]
Emerging Writer’s Festival – Part One
Hi all, Last weekend I went to the Emerging Writer’s Festival held at the town hall in Melbourne. Over the weekend I attended nine panel discussions on various subjects. I found all except one of them of interest. At a cost of $37 it was a bargain for any writer living in Melbourne. I had […]