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 …
The writer laid bare
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…
The literary journal Seizure just published my essay about female ageing and women’s attitudes towards their appearance. It can be read here: http://seizureonline.com/living-the-beauty-paradox/…
A Guest Post from Bambi Smyth about Mixing Creative Nonfiction Genres
I’ve never been very good at keeping things simple. When I write, I have more ideas swirling around my head than kites at a traditional Japanese festival, and invariably they get tangled up.
Similarly, when I came up with the …