The imminent beginning of yet another year makes me think about other beginnings – those first pages, paragraphs, sentences, words that pull readers into our tales. How do we make them sing?
Most obviously, banality is the enemy of good …
Meanjin is a great literary journal and I’m not saying this only because they chose my book as one of their gifts for new subscribers 🙂 Information about the journal and their new subscription campaign is here:
A Guest Post from Victoria Thompson: Writing about Love & Sex
When I wrote my second novel The Secret Seduction and the Enigma of Attraction, I did not set out to write an erotic novel, but a love story between two complicated, intelligent, wounded people who are afraid to love …
Very soon I’m about to repeat a music/spoken word event I performed previously in June.
Instead of a love poem is a collaborative event between me and the musician Adi Sappir that celebrates the work of the internationally renowned Israeli …
Literary Husbands: Dictionary Definition
- Not as well-known as their female counterparts, the Literary Wives (LW). Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein’s ‘wife’, for example, is nowadays inseparable from Stein’s oeuvre; Stein even titled one of her books ‘The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas’, forever mythologizing
The Australia Times Poetry magazine just published an interview with me and two of my poems. You can access these here: http://www.theaustraliatimes.com/magazine/poetry/issue/322/#55…