Recently I gave a reading from Nothing Sacred, a work of historical fiction set in late Republican Rome, in Canberra, at the once-residence of historian Manning Clark whose A History of Australia is regarded as the best-known general history of …
The writer laid bare
This week began wonderfully with the simultaneous (!) arrival of the new issue of The Big Issue with my short memoir in it + just printed copies of the forthcoming anthology I co-edited with Maria Katsonis. Can it get better?…
The Myth, or Reality, of Writer’s Block
Ten years ago I was awarded my first writing residency in Australia. At that time I was living at a crazy pace, juggling several jobs, studying for my MA and trying to write a novel. Oh, and I had a …
WRITING AS PLAY: a guest post by Perle Besserman
Question: What did William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller, and Karl Marx have in common?
Answer: They all regarded play as the most exalted of human activities.
Two of these men were among the greatest poets England and Germany ever produced, and …
This week started really well, with the new issue of The Lifted Brow arriving in my mail box with my short memoir ‘Diamonds in the Red Alley’ in it about my childhood in the Soviet Union. http://theliftedbrow.myshopify.com/…/pr…/the-lifted-brow-30……
Re-connecting to writer’s voice in the cyberspace
In the autumn of 2008 I was approaching the fifth anniversary of my writer’s block. During those years I never stopped writing and sometimes even produced publishable works. However, writing had become much harder than it used to be and …