So good to see that my memoir The Dangerous Bride has a long life. Two years since its publication, and this Saturday it made into Good Weekend.…
The writer laid bare
I just had the pleasure of publishing a new essay on Australian Women Writers Network website about what I call my ‘Chagall’s curse’.…
Writing about Others
Sometime after my memoir The Dangerous Bride came out, I received an email from a woman who had read my book. Her name was Anna, she was of a Russian origin and lived in Melbourne. There was also a Russian …
Dr Writer & Mr Editor: A guest post by Dmetri Kakmi
As a writer who is also an editor, I’m often asked how it feels to be edited. In other words, how does it feel to be on the receiving end of criticism and someone else’s red pen, instead of being …
How to be a writer
The German novelist Thomas Mann once suggested that writers are those people who find writing difficult, and I suspect the vast majority of writers would agree with him (I don’t really want to know about the few lucky ones who …
I’m actually someone’s literary crush! And this is even out there in the open, on the webpage of The Suburban Review. Unexpected and humbling.…