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Views from the Residency

And so yesterday my residency finished, a sad mix of feelings. I’m really proud of the story I wrote. It started to do with abandoned suitcases, and then evolved into something to do with fire water...

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I am interning at Mamamia!

MiaI have to let you guys in on a little secret, something that’s been killing me to keep to myself but now I can finally shout it from the roof tops!! Firstly: it’s no secret, however, that I idolise...

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Mixed Bag

…And the winner is Tomorrow, When the War Began! In third place: Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody Your runner up: Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta And the winner is: Tomorrow When The War Began...

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Best & Worst of the Week

Today I had the honour of being the person who writes the ‘Best and Worst’ over at Mamamia. It’s a really surreal feeling to be writing something that is so well-known around the MM traps, something...

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Review: Get Well Soon! My (Un)Brilliant Career as a Nurse by Kristy Chambers

If you thought TV’s Nurse Jackie told it like it was, then Get Well Soon! is one hell of a revelation. Falling into the nursing profession, Kristy Chambers has spent almost a decade working as a nurse,...

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Can Fiction Writers Write About Real People?

Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates I’ve been thinking lately about writing about people – dead or alive – but not as a biography. Merely fiction.  It’s been done before, and done well: example of Joyce Carol...

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So, my two weeks at Mamamia is up

And I only have three things to say. Mia and I 1) I may or may not have cried in front of Mia late last night (while in the green room at ABC studios). I thought I got away with it, but according to...

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Blogging for beginners: my first teaching gig done and dusted!

Look! I’m so famous!!!This morning marked my first blogging class.   It went for almost three hours and it was an introductory look at blogs and social media.   I had a small but engaged and active...

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Life.

Talking on the phone for three hours, and then the next day the other person calls you for three hours – spreading the costs out like you did in high school. Three loads of washing in one night....

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Closed (temporarily)

I saw The Perks of Being A Wallflower last night. As one would expect, it was amazing and intense. And it talked about doing what I’d been doing lately: Charlie’s Last Letter excerpt. Because I know...

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