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DOWNLOADABLE ARTICLES AND STORIES
Less is More – an essay on the art of the short film with case studies of Fiona Allon and Lindsay Barrett’s Sacred and Christina Andreef’s Excursion to the Bridge of Friendship. ‘I have still not given up hope of a short film one day.’ Andrey Tarkovsky
‘The ghost that follows all of us.’ A 1993 article and interview with artist, photographer and filmmaker Tracy Moffat on her first feature film, Bedevil.
A gorgeous article on the most fun collectible of all. ‘Some folks collect snowdomes because they’re not as flat as stamps.’
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Online Articles and Stories
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The best Australian historical fiction you’ve never read
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A decision needs to be made soon on our underwater fleet.
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The Last Space Waltz – Overland Magazine
Is the age of human space flight over?
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Our Navy Blues – The Monthly cover story April 2014
The RAN heads into uncharted waters
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Snake in the Grass in Griffith REVIEW #42: Once Upon a Time in Oz
If the snake in Lawson’s tale of bush hardship The Drover’s Wife could speak, what would she say?
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‘The Long Way Home’ – review for The Monthly
The historic collaboration between the ADF and the Sydney Theatre Company
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Putting Australia on the Map – The Monthly Feb 2014
The outline of Australia is so self-contained it easily became its own template, icon and logo. What I didn’t know was that it took centuries of discovery and cartographic effort to resolve this shape.
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The Monthly Magazine – Live From Mars: NASA’s ‘Curiosity’ in Tidbinbilla
The landing of ‘Curiosity’ on Mars as seen from the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex.
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The Monthly – Review of Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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The Carmel Bird Award: Amanda Lohrey Selects
The 12 stories selected by Amanda Lohrey and longlisted for the 2012 Carmel Bird Award. My story, Hostile Takeover, has now been released as an eSingle.
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Posts on Other Sites
Links to blogs I’ve written for other people
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The Story of My Book – Readings Blog
A look at the difficulty of staying ahead of the science while writing WHEN WE HAVE WINGS.
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The ‘Write’ Tools – Damon Young
So, how to clear the way for these elves to appear, what to do to welcome them?
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On Reading Like A Writer – Ian Irvine’s Blog
There is something to be said about the kind of reader you become once you start writing seriously
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On Writing the Land from the Sky – Fleur McDonald’s blog
It became clear to me that to love flying means also loving the land.
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Review of Catch-22 on Kill Your Darlings
They have a right to do anything we can’t stop them from doing.
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Marketing the Boundaries – on the fiction of Margo Lanagan
Why is Margo Lanagan sold as a YA author?
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Jessica Anderson’s Tirra Lirra by the River – Overland Blog
An older person looks back on his or her life. A well-worn literary trope – why are authors so fond of it?
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Impossible to choose a favourite, so I wrote about a book that I realised powerfully influences my adult writing.
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