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7 August – in conversation w Janine Burke, Muse Canberra
4-5 September – Nature Writing Masterclass Bungendore, NSW
26 October 2021 – publication day The Last Woman in the World
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Beautiful Sentences
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together” ~ J.D Salinger. On Saturday 1 June I’ll be teaching a workshop on writing beautiful sentences at the NSW … Continue reading
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Castlemaine State Festival
Later this month I’ll be participating the Castlemaine State Festival (22-31 March), a stunning bi-annual arts festival, which this year is focussing on sustainability, nature and rural living. I’ll be teaching a nature writing workshop on Friday 29 March. You … Continue reading
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Kangaroo Island & Birds of Extinction
I recently met the lovely and talented Brisbane-based artist, Emma Lindsay through fellow PhD student and birdwoman, Melissa Ashley (whose forthcoming novel, The Birdman’s Wife, about Elizabeth Gould, is a must read). I stumbled across Emma’s work while writing my novel, Nest, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Carter, Dwarf Emu, Emaa Lindsay, Emma Lindsay, Extinction Project, inga simpson, Kangaroo Island, nature writing retreat, Nest, QLD Museum, Time Travel, travel writing, World Science Festival Brisbane, Writing retreats, writing workshop
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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
Nature Writing Retreat: Far South Coast
I’m teaching at a 5-day nature writing retreat, run through Olvar Wood, from 3-7 May, 2015. We’ll be ‘glamping’ at The Escape, at Shallow Crosssing, near Bateman’s Bay, on the south coast of NSW. It’s a beautiful, wild setting: river … Continue reading
