Authors Gabrielle Lord and Walter Mason launched Carmel Bird’s My Hearts Are Your Hearts and The Michael McGirr Selects Series for Spineless Wonders on July 25 at Berkelouw Books, Leichhardt, Sydney. My story, ‘We’re All Travellers Here’, won the 2014 Carmel Bird Award, which was presented by Carmel Bird on the night. I was not
This week Spineless Wonders released my award-winning story ‘We’re All Travellers Here’, the first in its series of 12 long eStories selected by Michael McGirr. The story won the 2014 Carmel Bird Award announced in January 2015. Award judge, Michael McGirr, said the story was ‘a terrific achievement which makes great use of cultural history
The Sydney Writers’ Festival is done and dusted for another year but you can find lasting traces (in the form of photos and grabs) on A Bigger Brighter World’s Facebook page. You’ll find Don Watson speaking with Eleanor Hall about his book The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia, a poetic tour de force,
A Bigger Brighter World has been pushing through crowds and shuffling along queues with sticky-noted books at the Sydney Writers’ Festival this week. Pictured here are the stars of the second day at the Carrington Hotel stage of the Varuna and Sydney Writers’ Festival. For more photos of the authors, pop over to our Facebook
Sex and death — the two key subjects of fiction — are entwined and plentiful in esteemed Australian novelist Marion Halligan’s twenty-second book, Goodbye Sweetheart, said Carmel Bird, who launched the novel in Canberra on April 14. Bird, whose new short story collection My Hearts Are Your Hearts will be released by Spineless Wonders later this
While you are waiting for the next review to arrive on this blog, get on over to A Bigger Brighter World’s Facebook page to keep feeling the love we have for the world of books. There you’ll find longlists and shortlists, announcements of prize winners, posts about the evolution of reading technologies and people wasting
In 2014, I pledged to spend more time writing and learning about poetry. Galloping away from the Year of the Horse and into the Year of the Sheep (which starts on February 19) I’m wondering: What have I achieved? What tips can I offer to others attempting to stay the course? Tip 1. Write drafts
My story ‘We’re All Travellers Here’ has won the 2014 Carmel Bird Award, announced on January 9. Award judge, Michael McGirr, said ‘We’re All Travellers Here’ is ‘the story of an older mother and her adult son on tour. The son is buried alive in his own sophistication and self-concern. The mother eclipses him with
My story ‘Walk Beside Me’ has won the inaugural Lane Cove Literary Award (Short Story), presented to me at a packed ceremony in Lane Cove Library on October 29. Award judge Jeni Mawter said ‘Walk Beside Me’ wove all the essential elements of a great short story through its narrative in a beautiful way. The voice
My author profile of Mark O’Flynn and his fabulous short story collection White Light is published on the international short story forum THRESHOLDS this week. In Mark’s story ‘Red Shoes’, the shoes encapsulate much about Dorothy Hewett’s character. She’d been a Communist, feminist, atheist and sexual libertarian. The shoes are a striking symbol of how
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