We chatted to songwriter, poet and novelist Pip Smith, ahead of her course Online: Poetry, about what helps her get ideas onto the page, where to find your writing community and how poetry can wake language like nothing else.
Access our first online Talking Writing event, via podcast, video or transcript. The event featured Tracy Sorensen, Peter Polites, Robin M Eames and Eunice Andrada, as they discuss writing the body.
‘Some of these passages have edges as sharp as new knives while others are soft as freshly fallen snow’ – Dr Beatriz Copello reviews The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr.
We might be staying at home this month, but that doesn’t mean you can’t engage with some fantastic literary discussions! Pull out your laptop and support writers with some of these great virtual events. This list is updated periodically so you can keep up to date with what’s happening in our (digital) literary communities.
There’s plenty happening around the state this March.
So you better get pencilling!
Award-winning writer, editor and critic, Fiona Wright describes how valuable feedback has been to her writing.
Summer’s here and so are the final days of the year. It’s not too late to strike off those new year resolutions — starting with the ones on your calendar.
Where did the year go? We hope NaNoWriMo isn’t the only thing on your writing calendar this month.
“If Burns wrote music, I would say she does not miss a beat, whether she raises issues about the past or the present, she does with conviction, with vivid imagery and poignant comments.” – Beatriz Copello reviews apparently by Joanne Burns