http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ en-us mail@sophiecunningham.com 2010-01-07T12:35:21+10:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/katherine/ Katherine is 300 km south of Darwin. There can be severe floods there in February/March - in 1998 and 2006 there was great devastation - and the folks at the NT Writers Centre sent me cheery emails along the lines... 989@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2009-04-22T16:26:00+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/the_great_northern_territory_a/ Last month I went to the Northern Territory for 12 days to teach a series of writing workshops for the Northern Territory Writers Centre. It's always hard to know what people get out of these things but personally, I've never... 988@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2009-04-22T16:24:43+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/meanjin_haz_a_new_blog/ It turned out the sleepover was only brief. Spike, Meanjin's new blog is up and running. While Meanjin's website is being rebuilt and will relaunch soon-ish, the opinionation starts now.... 987@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2009-04-19T16:54:02+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/fiction_writers_tell_all/ 986@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2009-04-17T13:59:28+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/stephen_fry_is_awesome/ Stephen Fry is wonderful in many ways, but in this podgram in which he both critiques columnist/ranters/journalists and rants wildly himself, he is pure gold. I insist you listen to him. SC... 985@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2009-04-17T13:49:37+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/balls/ The new Meanjin blog has taken longer to get off the ground than I hoped so we are taking up camp here. Posts will either be by me (Sophie) or by Jessica Au. We'll sign them so you know who... 983@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2009-04-17T12:35:52+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/loss/ I've been driving up to this land at Terip Terip for almost 30 years, and they've been working on it all that time.Words fail me. But here are some images of what my mother and stepfather are currently fighting to... 982@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2009-02-10T15:07:00+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/monty_has_died/ I gave Monty money now and then when I went to Vic Market each week ( he was the blind man, in the North Melbourne footy jumper who sat at the entrance to the meat section as you went through... 980@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2009-02-07T11:22:54+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/incense/ Whenever I travel I find myself obsessively photographing something different. In Sri Lanka it was soap ads and I did try to pursue that obsession in Vietnam when I was there recently - but my passion had subsided (or sudsided?... 979@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2009-02-06T08:14:18+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/grimace_1/ Birdie's face last Friday, at about the time it hit 45.1 degrees (and not much less in the house) says it all. At around this time she, and Wilson, let me rub them down with ice. Cat owners will agree... 977@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2009-02-02T08:09:12+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/summer_reading/ My novel Bird has been shortlisted for the State Library of Victoria's Summer Resding Program. If you wanted to vote for me, that would be nice - it's kind of like a literary Australian Idol. This means I'll be blogging... 974@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2008-11-26T08:05:57+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/bullying_at_xavier/ 'Principal Chris McCabe denied there was a culture of bullying at the school. Nick "was just at the wrong place at the wrong time" on Monday, he said.' Seems to me that poor Nick has been in the wrong place... 973@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2008-10-23T09:38:54+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/two_passions_come_together_in/ more animals... 972@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2008-10-15T09:35:23+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/stage_mother/ Yesterday I had an article in the Age about human-animal relationships. The hope is that the photo accompanying the article, taken by Virginia, (not the photo below) will make Bird the star we always knew she'd be. Wilson, however, is... 971@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2008-10-05T12:06:14+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/iwantsanotherfinalwin/ I was in Sydney for last week's preliminary final and while all my Sydney friends were drinking in the courtyard of The Duck and the something or other, (and, to add to the general Duckiness, one of those friends was... 968@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2008-09-26T09:55:17+10:00