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Clunes Booktown Festival
The Clunes Booktown Festival will run over the weekend of 4-5 May. Visitors to the town can browse for books of all kinds amid the historic streetscapes of Clunes, which the festival guide describes as 'a town where a proud gold heritage reaches out to a ...
24/04/2013
9:04:24 AM
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Writers' Voices
The National Library archives its talks and makes them available for download. The recorded sessions are from events hosted by the Library. In one talk,Lily Brett, longlisted for the ALS Gold Medal, speaks about her longlisted book,Lola Bensky. In ...
28/02/2013
4:16:36 PM
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Putting Oxford Street on the App
The Red Room Company is inviting poems about Sydney's Oxford Street to add to its 'poetic map' of Australia in time for this year's Sydney Mardi Gras. Called 'The Disappearing', this ambitious project allows users both to explore their environment through ...
30/01/2013
2:40:01 PM
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Elizabeth Kostova Foundation Offers Five Writing Scholarships
The Elizabeth Kostova Foundation for Creative Writingis offering five writing scholarshipsin English for its sixth annual summer fiction writing seminar in the ancient town of Sozopol, Bulgaria, on the Black Sea coast. The seminar program consists of ...
30/01/2013
10:36:04 AM
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Festival Round Up
Singer/songwriter Nick Cave will be a headliner at this year's Ubud Writers & Readers Festival to be held in Bali from 3-7 October, 2012. This will be the ninth Ubud festival, the first having been created as a 'healing project in response to the ...
08/08/2012
8:15:14 AM
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Venus in Transit
Captain Cook's epic voyage to the east coast of Australia began after he sailed toTahiti in 1769 to view the transit of Venus. This celestial event, repeated today, 6 June, has inspired authors for years, particularly writers of fantasy fiction.Dominick ...
06/06/2012
12:29:33 PM