Category: writing

  • The Subjects

    Now that I am allowed to talk about it, I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be part of The Subjects, a residency in Adelaide’s state-of-the-art sleep lab from February 9-16, organised through ANAT. Along with three others I will be deprived of sleep, clocks and natural light and watched constantly for evidence I am developing…

  • On Classics

    This is a cross-posting of a guest post for Australian Women Writers – please leave comments there! My previous posts about the AWW2012 reading challenge can be found here and here. “Used with great caution and suspicion, a literary canon, a list of significance, may have some use in guiding and informing inexperienced readers, but…

  • An open letter to Immigration Minister Chris Bowen

    Re: Omid Sorousheh LIC017 “I want justice I am human” Dear Minister, Omid Sorousheh has been on hunger strike in Nauru for 45 days. He has had no water for three days. Today he has again stated his intention to die unless sent to Australia, and there is evidence that his health is failing. Along…