Category: Conventions
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5am Melbourne – After the Emerging Writers Festival
The Emerging Writers Festival is over. I had a rocking good time. Met some lovely people. Had the brain juices stimulated, challenged, soothed and had some of my wackier ideas encouraged! Beware. As always, I didn’t attend most of the panels I intended to go to. Instead I wandered from interesting thing to interesting thing…
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Little liz – the accident prone years
… no the accident prone years would mean just about any year. I am writing this with a strapped finger after getting a deep slash in my finger while examining suitcases. I wrote up this anecdote to share with my Co-Clarionaters, we’re getting to know each other and Mr Nicholas Bede Stenner suggested we share…
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Wonderful scholarship news
I just got some great news from the good people at Clarion. I have received some scholarship support from the following organisations/groups/foundations: Walter and Marjorie Farrell Scholarship The Farrell Scholarship in Honor of Tina Spell IBM Clarion Foundation and UCSD Knight/Wilhelm Endowed scholarships You can find out more about the scholarships on the Clarion Sponsorship…
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2008 review continues, two festivals in detail – Emerging Writers Festival and ACT Writers Festival
Going to conventions costs money, costs time and I’m very aware that it can be one of the best investments a writer can make, or a procrastination tool and a bit of a junket. Here’s an analysis of two of the festivals I went to in 2008, I’ll get to the rest later, so I’ll…