At risk of boring my remaining blog readers with bureaucratese, I’m sharing my submission to the National Cultural Policy below. I thought about screwing it up and chucking it in the Vintage bag that serves as my rubbish bin – since I just got a grant, there can be nothing wrong with the system, right? [...]
Category Archives: writing
on walking away
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
September means it’s time to sign up to New Matilda‘s subscriber list – a very small monthly payment which will not only pay you back in independent media gold all year long, but also shower you with gifts and make you laugh the self-satisfied laughter of the well-informed citizen. I have been quiet on the [...]
Thriller
Monday, August 29, 2011
I’ll be in Melbourne next week for the MWF – talking with SJ Watson and Felix J Palma (and perhaps putting an extra J in the middle of my name in the hope of becoming an international publishing phenomenon) about writing thriller-ish things, at the distinctly unfrightening time of 11:30 on Friday morning. Both their [...]
namin’ names
Friday, August 26, 2011
I’m not actually working today (insert hollow laughter) but I just wanted to put a post up about the article ‘How to Write About Aboriginal Australia’ which is on the ABC and Overland this week. Yes, it is definitely based on this fantastic essay from Granta 92 by Binyavanga Wainaina, and the idea came out [...]
