INTERVIEW: T.A.G. Hungerford Award winner Natasha Lester
What prompted you to change careers and become a writer?
It was partly to do with a coincidence of timing and partly to do with finally being confident enough to pursue a dream.
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INTERVIEW: Ron Elliott
Ron Elliott discusses his version of ‘the great Australian novel’ and the journey both he and his characters went on to tell the story of Spinner.
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‘Boy’ long listed for the Miles Franklin
Boy on a Wire by Jon Doust has been long listed for a 2010 Miles Franklin Award.
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INTERVIEW: Goldie Goldbloom author of The Paperbark Shoe
Goldie Goldbloom will be in Perth for the Perth Writers’ Festival and a special author evening at Christ Church Grammar School on 2 March 2010.
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Perth writer joins best young Australian novelist list
Fremantle Press author Alice Nelson will be presented with an award for best young Australian novelist at the Sydney Writers Festival this week.
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Local novelist untangles a Fremantle story
Director and Theatre Studies Lecturer at Notre Dame University Gabrielle Metcalf will launch The Bookshop on Jacaranda Street by Marlish Glorie at Dymocks Fremantle on Friday 8 May.
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Speech Transcript: Reg Cribb launches Boy on Wire
( If Jon were launching a book that I had penned I’m sure he wouldn’t have a speech prepared. He’d fly by the seat of his pants, coz thats what he does.. But I am a good Aquinas boy and we dont fly by the seat of our pants. )
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INTERVIEW: Author Peter Docker discusses Someone Else’s Country and his Mickelberg play
I was born into a community whose preferred method of living with Aboriginal people was apartheid.
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Alice Nelson shortlisted for 2009 Barbara Jefferis Award
The Last Sky by Alice Nelson is one of six books on this year’s short list for the Barbara Jefferis Award.
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Hanifa Deen in conversation with Barney Zwartz
Hanifa Deen author of Caravanserai will launch her latest release, The Jihad Seminar with Barney Zwartz, Religion Editor for The Age at Melbourne University this Wednesday 6 August.
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