On Writing

On Friday 13th May I’m talking about genre and fiction with literary agent & sci-fi buff Sophie Hamley and authors P.M.Newton and James Bradley at Shearer’s Bookshop in Leichhardt. We’re

As if it wasn’t enough to be nominated for Cosmo’s Fun, Fearless Female Award… The Legacy has been shortlisted for the prestigious ALS Gold Medal by the Association for the

I’m stoked to be a nominee in Cosmo’s Fun, Fearless Women Awards for 2011 in the Author category. You can vote for me here.

The Legacy is one of two debut novels included on the longlist for the Miles Franklin award, released today. Read The Sun Herald‘s coverage here.

I wrote a brief essay for The Wheeler Centre blog on the under-representation of women in the literary pages: read it here. Also it has a really cool photo illustration.

Dear Luke, I have enjoyed reading the ALR since you took over as editor, but I have been troubled by the small number of women writing for the publication, and

You can now read my recent contributions to The Monthly, previously available only to subscribers, online for free. These include essays on the sexual politics of Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy

Catherine Taylor reviews The Legacy in this weekend’s round-up of debut novels in The Guardian : “Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady is reworked as a seductive contemporary literary

It was a beautiful space and a great conversation with Roland Gulliver and Sophie Cooke: photos just in.

The Perth Writers Festival program just came out, and there’s a whole lot of great authors involved. Click here for the whole program, and here to see a list of