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Tag Archives: Nike Sulway
Nest longlisted for the Stella Prize
Nest has been longlisted for the 2015 Stella Prize. It’s among fine company, including Helen Garner’s This House of Grief, Maxine Beneba Clark’s Foreign Soil and Ellen Van Neerven’s Heat and Light.
Posted in Books, Mr Wigg, Nest, News
Tagged ellen van neerven, foreign soil, heat and light, helen garner, inga simpson, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Mr Wigg, Nest, Nike Sulway, olvar wood, Rebecca Jessen
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On Rooks
I’ve kept this picture of two Lewis chessmen on the wall by my writing desk for more than ten years. There’s something about the beserker, crazy-eyed and biting his shield. Seventy-eight chessmen were found on the Isle of Lewis, in the … Continue reading
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Tagged inga simpson, Isle of Lewis, Nike Sulway, outer Hebrides, Tronheim, writing inspiration
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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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Stella!
It’s finally happening. An annual literary prize for Australian women’s fiction: The Stella Prize. Do we really need another literary prize, you might well ask? The answer should be no, but it isn’t. While there are plenty of fine books … Continue reading
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Tagged australian literature, gender disparity, inga simpson, literary prize, nike bourke, Nike Sulway, publishing, stella prize, susan johnson, women writers, writing
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ash and cupcakes
15 August 2011 The woodpile is shrinking. I had planned to chainsaw more wood today, but I’m tired and it is raining. Yesterday we cleaned out the ash from beneath the fireplace, which had piled right up to within an … Continue reading
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Tagged ash, birds, cupcakes, fire, inga simpson, landscape, nature writing, nike bourke, Nike Sulway, olvar wood, queensland, red belly black snake, snakes, trees, winter, wood, writers retreat, writing
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Naming Olvar Wood
The name Olvar Wood is taken from Tolkien’s The Simarillion, in which the olvar are growing things with roots in the ground and the kelvar are animals. It was Yavanna (giver of fruits), the second greatest of the Valar (pure, … Continue reading
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Tagged inga simpson, kelvar, lord of the rings, nature writing, nike bourke, Nike Sulway, olvar wood, Simarillion, the Two Trees, Tolkien, trees
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