Here’s my project. I read a poem a day, imbibe its rhythms and use this as an inspiration for my own writing. Because it’s 2016, I’ll choose 16 quotes from 16 of these poems to feature on A Bigger Brighter World so you’ll get to enjoy a taste of them too. I may not manage
Here’s my project. I read a poem a day, imbibe its rhythms and use this as an inspiration for my own writing. Because it’s 2016, I’ll choose 16 quotes from 16 of these poems to feature on A Bigger Brighter World so you’ll get to enjoy a taste of them too. I may not manage
I loved Colm Tóibín’s novel Brooklyn so I was most pleased to be able to offer Australian readers five in-season double passes to the film adaptation, described as an ‘immaculately crafted, immensely moving character study about a 1950s immigrant struggling to find her place in the world’. Competition winners came from all over Australia: Mt
Here’s my project. I read a poem a day, imbibe its rhythms and use this as an inspiration for my own writing. Because it’s 2016, I’ll choose 16 quotes from 16 of these poems to feature on A Bigger Brighter World so you’ll get to enjoy a taste of them too. I may not manage
A friend is setting up a theme-based book club in Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills in the St George area of Sydney — not that one in California. Theme-based. (Not genre-based. Or fiction or non-fiction. Or classics or prize-winners.) Is that unusual? Can anything be unusual in book clubs? The under-one-hour-reading-club, based on something that takes
Authors Gabrielle Lord and Walter Mason launched Carmel Bird’s My Hearts Are Your Hearts and The Michael McGirr Selects Series for Spineless Wonders on July 25 at Berkelouw Books, Leichhardt, Sydney. My story, ‘We’re All Travellers Here’, won the 2014 Carmel Bird Award, which was presented by Carmel Bird on the night. I was not
This week Spineless Wonders released my award-winning story ‘We’re All Travellers Here’, the first in its series of 12 long eStories selected by Michael McGirr. The story won the 2014 Carmel Bird Award announced in January 2015. Award judge, Michael McGirr, said the story was ‘a terrific achievement which makes great use of cultural history
The Sydney Writers’ Festival is done and dusted for another year but you can find lasting traces (in the form of photos and grabs) on A Bigger Brighter World’s Facebook page. You’ll find Don Watson speaking with Eleanor Hall about his book The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia, a poetic tour de force,
A Bigger Brighter World has been pushing through crowds and shuffling along queues with sticky-noted books at the Sydney Writers’ Festival this week. Pictured here are the stars of the second day at the Carrington Hotel stage of the Varuna and Sydney Writers’ Festival. For more photos of the authors, pop over to our Facebook
Sex and death — the two key subjects of fiction — are entwined and plentiful in esteemed Australian novelist Marion Halligan’s twenty-second book, Goodbye Sweetheart, said Carmel Bird, who launched the novel in Canberra on April 14. Bird, whose new short story collection My Hearts Are Your Hearts will be released by Spineless Wonders later this
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