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Blog Archive

All my previous blog entries, ordered from most recent to least.

Entries

Apr 22

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...More»

Apr 22

The Great Northern Territory Adventure

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...More»

Apr 19

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....More»

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AUTHORS are intellectually incoherent with outrage . . . The Australian 's editorial goes on in this vein for a while. It's a grotesque misrepresentation of the situation that author's will face if the Productivity Commission's draft report goes through.

This website has been built so that those who want to support Harry Nicolaides the Australian writer currently being held in a Thai prison. His sentence for 'insulting the monarchy' is three years.

Somewhat belatedly, I want to note the death of Glenn Goldman, the founder of that great LA bookshop on Sunset: Duck Soup.

These images superimposing Leningrad during the Siege onto modern St Petersburg, are extraordinary.

On November 3 I'm taking part in a day long publishing forum Varuna is putting on in the Blue Mountains. If you're interested, come along.