Melbourne Writers Festival

I'm kind of in the process of writing something longer and more profound about this whole City of Literature thing, but suffice to say - ftw!

Anyway. Participate in the City of Literature by coming to see me at the Melbourne Writers Festival!

Featuring me:

DIY Culture: blogging isn't writing is it? 26 August 2008

Learn from Lili Wilkinson and Margo Lanagan, two experts from the blogosphere!

Writers who read, readers who write 27 August 2008

Join John Marsden, Margo Lanagan and Lili Wilkinson as they speak about the books they’ve loved over the years. 

Chaired by me:

Invisible Cities: writing about home 25 August 2008

Rachel Cohn and Simmone Howell discuss how they made their cities and suburbs come alive in their writing.

Bringing the past to life 26 August 2008

The books of both David Metzenthen and Elizabeth Fensham have mixed the past with the present to best tell their story. Find out how they do this and why in this engaging session.

Short launch

EVERYBODY loves a book launch.

So come along to the launch of SHORT.

It's on Monday 26 May (yeah, that's THIS MONDAY).

At 6pm.

It's at The Little Bookroom (759 Nicholson Street, North Carlton)

aka, here:

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All are welcome!

Royalties from the sale of the book will go to Big Brothers Big Sisters.

In case you're not totally sick of me

You can come and hear me talk at the Emerging Writers Festival tomorrow!

I'm on a panel called How To Find an Audience (without losing your soul). It's at 12:30 in the Yarra Room at Melbourne Town Hall, and I intend to say some fascinating and salacious things about commercial fiction, specifically Allen & Unwin's fabulous* new Girlfriend Fiction series.

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* I has a bias.

Come and see me!

I'll be at the Coburg Library on Thursday evening, talking about Me and My Books and My Job. I might even read from one of my New Books...

7pm, Thursday 10 April
Coburg Library
Cnr Victoria and Louisa Streets
Coburg.

To book, call 9353 4000