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26 Feb – 5 March 2021 Wild Writing: Nature Writing Retreat @Springfield, Southern Highlands, NSW
26 May 2021 – publication day: The Book of Australian Trees
26 October 2021 – publication day The Last Woman in the World (as Elsa Johnson)
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Shallow Crossing
The flash and gleam of light, the plop and bubble of others, below – the constant play of a world within a world that knows its own secret. Continue reading
Nature Writing @ Reality Bites
Inga will be teaching a nature writing workshop as part of the Reality Bites Writers Festival at Cooroy Library on Friday morning, 24 October. Reality Bites is a wonderful non-fiction festival (though touches of fiction are creeping in, showing how blurry … Continue reading
Developing Your Novel masterclass @BWF14
I’ll be teaching a masterclass about how to develop your novel from zero draft to masterpiece at this year’s Brisbane Writer’s Festival. We’ll be looking at a mix of practical techniques for structuring and mapping your story as well as some more playful … Continue reading
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Tagged brisbane writers festival, BWF14, character, developing your novel, hachette, inga simpson, masterclass, Mr Wigg, Nest, olvar wood, structure, writing
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BBWF: Nature Writing Workshop
I’m heading south for the Byron Way Writers Festival at the end of this month, hoping for the blissful Byron weather that the tent festival nearly always manages to delivers up. I’m looking forward to seeing Jeanette Winterson’s Keynote address on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Miller, Ashley Hay, BBWF, Byron, Byron Bay Writers Festival, Claire Scobie, inga simpson, Jeanette Winterson, Jessie Cole, Lisa Gorton, lisa walker, Maxine Beneba Clarke, ML Stedman, Mr Wigg, nature writing, Nest, robert hoge, Tony Birch, workshop, writing
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Rupetta lives
Nike Sulway’s wonderful novel, Rupetta, about a partly mechanical woman who lives four hundred years, hits the stands next month, published by Tartarus Press, in the UK. If you don’t know Tartarus, they publish beautifully bound books in the … Continue reading
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Tagged angela slatter, best book, cathars, france, inga simpson, n.a sulway, n.a. bourke, nike bourke, Nike Sulway, novel, olvar wood, perilous adventures, Rupetta, southern france, speculative fiction, tartarus press, the golden fleece, writing, york
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Discovering Lauren Groff
David Vann, speaking on a panel at the Brisbane Writer’s Festival in September this year, said that he only reads books which contain beautiful sentences. I read more widely, up to a thousand pages a week – for my research, work and pleasure. I enjoy … Continue reading
Gilbert White’s A Natural History of Selbourne
Gilbert White believed that those who study “only one district are much more likely to advance natural knowledge than those that grasp at more than they can possibly be acquainted with: every kingdom, every province, should have its own monographer.”
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