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Anna Funder’s <i>All That I Am</i> wins 2012 Miles Franklin
Anna Funder made her name with the much-hailed and widely published nonfiction work Stasiland. Her first novel, All That I Am—already a bestseller and winner of multiple awards—has just been awarded t… more →
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Breaking => Emergency Mafia G-7 Meeting: Greedy Elite Ready To Pull Currency Reset Trigger: Benghazi Was New World Order's Waterloo!
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wrote 6 days ago: The G-7 are meeting this weekend outside of London. This was unscheduled and can only be considered … more →
Final Draft: Interview with Romy Ash
wrote 2 weeks ago: Download: romy-ash_interview-44100-hz.mp3 // Congratulations to Romy Ash, whose first novel Flounder … more →
This year's miles franklin is all woman
wrote 3 weeks ago: Well this is curious. Women outnumbered men on the Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist by 4:1, a … more →
Miles Franklin short list announced
wrote 3 weeks ago: Carrie Tiffany, who recently won the inaugural Stella Prize for Australian women’s literature … more →
Movie Quote of the Day - My Brilliant Career, 1979 (dir. Gillian Armstrong)
wrote 3 weeks ago: Sybylla: I think ugly girls should be strangled at birth by their parents. It’s bad enough bei … more →
What's the Stella Prize - and what is it trying to say about the way female writers are regarded?
wrote 1 month ago: This week the first ever Stella Prize was awarded to Carrie Tiffany for her novel Mateship with Bird … more →
The Inaugural Stella Prize
wrote 1 month ago: The Stella Prize 2013 Winner is Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany Announced Tuesday 16 April Cl … more →
Carrie Tiffany wins inaugural $50,000 Stella Prize
wrote 1 month ago: Carrie Tiffany has won the inaugural Stella Prize for women writers in Australia, and $50,000, with … more →
Mateship with Birds
wrote 1 month ago: “It seems plausible to consider That birds were the architects for trees. A hollow, or a fork, for e … more →
TTWWD - my last day and Sydney puts on the magic
wrote 1 month ago: After two days of unremitting rain, spent running for cover and taxis and getting hopelessly wet eac … more →
Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012 - Completed
wrote 2 months ago: Belatedly, I am happy to declare that I successfully completed the challenge that I set myself last … more →
Concussion in the NFL
wrote 2 months ago: Written By Kyle Anderson The conversation of concussions in the NFL has been a serious topic for the … more →
AWW 2012 Challenge Wrap-up: Literary Awards/Classics Part 1
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wrote 3 months ago: This is a wrap-up of literary awards (with a focus on Miles Franklin Award titles) and Classics revi … more →
Cliff Notes For The Fiscal Cliff; Some Fun Followed by the Cold, Hard Truth
wrote 4 months ago: First we need some humor for a very un-funny subject, so please enjoy this video. Now unfortunately, … more →
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wrote 5 months ago: “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” Miles Franklin … more →
The Blinding of Harold
wrote 5 months ago: Odysseus blinding Polymorpheus One moment in My Brilliant Career that jolted me was when Sybylla, to … more →
My Brilliant Career
wrote 5 months ago: As for Franklin herself, she left her native land for three decades and withdrew behind a scrim of m … more →
A muse on 'Australian Classics: 50 great writers and their celebrated works' by Jane Gleeson-White
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wrote 6 months ago: There I was all set to dive into reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell when I picked up Jane Gleeson … more →
Fundamental needs of human beings
wrote 7 months ago: Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. Miles Franklin … more →
