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Festivals and workshops – April 2017

Hello! Look at how long it’s been since I’ve visited this blog! Cobwebs everywhere.

I’ve got a couple of festival appearances coming up, and I mention them because if you’re in Newcastle or Brisbane, I would absolutely love to catch up with you.

Also! I’m conducting two writing workshops for tens to teens at Hornsby Library in the April school holidays. The library have been ace in letting me have a slightly longer time slot than normal. I love giving workshops – it’s always a huge pleasure to enjoy the really different ideas a room full of young writers can come up with. So if you know any teens you’d think would enjoy it please send them along. They don’t even have to be budding writers. This would also work really well for reluctant readers – it always seems to spark something.

Okay, enough from me. Hope you are well and happy and enjoying the Year of the Rooster so far. I might try and blog more regularly (I had grand plans for a regular Friday update, but maybe it’ll be fortnightly).

Here’s the quick summary of those events. For more info check out www.rockandrollwritersfestival.com, or www.newcastlewritersfestival.org.au, or www.hornsby.nsw.gov.au/my-lifestyle/events

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White Horses out now

Hey, I've got a piece in the latest @whitehorsesmag . It's a short profile on a man called Dennis, and it was the hardest thing I've ever written. Not because the writing was difficult, but because I wanted it so very much to be "right". He's someone I respect greatly, but when I was doing this piece, he took the ultimate risk and trusted me enough to be vulnerable. I want to say so much more, and it's all kind of tied up with watching Man Up last night (ABC2 – it's on iview – http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/man-up/DO1504H001S00 – if you haven't seen it, PLEASE watch it, because it will slay you in the best way). But it boils down to this: you never connect quite so much as when you're wide open. (On this, I should also holler THANKS to @wickssurf for good counsel). There's also a cracking article on Hawaii by Gary Young aka @mugofsunshine . He's also a man brave enough to show his vulnerability and in this case the results are fuqqing hilarious. It's the funniest thing I've read in ages. (P.S. The guys who now own White Horses started it in the first place and have purchased it from the media company who backed them to begin with – so they have also taken a big risk and made themselves vulnerable, and they deserve all the love for doing it. It is BEAUTIFUL, beyond a magazine – every issue is a work of art. If you're not reading it already, surfer or not, go buy it. You won't be sorry.) #whitehorsesmag #whitehorses #surfwriting #surfing #vulnerability #men #manup #surfmagazines #surflife

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Summer Skin in the US and Canada Spring 2018

(Shout out to @librariankaren who prompted me!) Summer Skin is going to be published in the States and Canada by Feiwel & Friends in Spring 2018. I forgot to post this here, which was silly because Insta is my happy place. I can't lie – I have wanted to be published in the States and Canada since forever, mainly because bloggers/readers/authors from those parts have always been so insanely generous and welcoming to me. All thanks to Catherine Drayton, Anna Roberto, Lauren Scobell and amazing people like @greadsbooks who organised a Summer Skin tour as soon as it came out. Clipping above from Publishers Weekly because I've wanted to make Publishers Weekly since forever, too, and I also wanted to make you squint. #summerskin #publishingnews #smallprint

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Opportunities for young writers (Australia)

Express media

I had an email recently that asked me about publishing/editing opportunities for young writers. I wanted to share my reply in case it helps others. If you know of other opportunities, please leave a comment and I’ll make sure the information is passed on (I’m sure there are heaps of others, but this is what came immediately to mind!):

On youth publishers – the first place I thought of was Express Media. http://www.expressmedia.org.au/ (I notice the deadline for their next issue is September 18). The other thing that came to mind is the Somerset Literary Festival Novella Competition http://www.somerset.qld.edu.au/celebration-of-literature/competitions/novella-writing/ The competition itself is very high profile and it offers the opportunity for the winner to work with a Penguin Random House Editor.

In terms of other opportunities more generally, you could keep checking in with the New South Wales Writers’ Centre (or the Writers’ Association in your state, eg. the Queensland Writers’ Centre) or the Australian Society of Authors (http://www.nswwc.org.au/ , http://www.qwc.asn.au/ or https://www.asauthors.org/ ). And one way of getting quality editing is to consider a manuscript assessment. They match people with working editors, and can be great for getting feedback on a piece of longer writing. 

Okay, a couple to add to the list already, with thanks to Katie Rowney:

And a couple more with thanks to Danielle Binks:

And we have these thanks to the lovely Jessica Walton:

And for young writers in Qld, with thanks to Sophie Overett for the heads up:

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Uni of Qld Alumni This is Your Life Kind of Thing

Summer Skin

Actually, that whole heading is a massive exaggeration … but I am Uni of Qld Alumni, and I did do an interview with the irrepressible Katie Rowney for their online blog. It’s about the time I had there (both at uni and at college) and how I went from using my degree to writing books (which isn’t really using my degree, but they didn’t seem to mind) and how to smile like a weirdo when you’re wearing a toga (which is a secret hidden pic, kind of like Where’s Wally, or Where is THE Wally?). Also, Katie did GIFs of me surfing and because, as we all know, surfing is my not-so-secret vanity, I am indebted to her for life.

You can read the article by clicking HERE.

You can find out more about Katie’s excellent book, FRONT PAGE NEWS, by clicking HERE.

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Upcoming events – August/September 2016!

FOTC Jemaine Dance

Hello!

I’ve got three things coming up in the next two months: the Abbotsleigh Literary Festival (10 August), an event at Kinokuniya with four other esteemed ladies of YA (Sarah Ayoub, Erin Gough, Gabby Tozer and Jeann from Happy Indulgence) and the Brisbane Writers’ Festival (10 and 11 September).

Please come along to one, or to all. You’re the apple of my eye and I’d love to see you there.

Full details below:

Abbotsleigh Literary Festival

Wednesday 10 August 

More information

Writing Herstory: Today’s female experience in contemporary YA

Saturday 20 August 2pm-3pm

Panel   | Sarah Ayoub, Erin Gough, Gabrielle Tozer and Kirsty Eagar – hosted by Jeann from Happy Indulgence

Venue: Kinokuniya, Level 2, The Galeries, 500 George Street, Sydney 2000

Brisbane Writers’ Festival

Saturday 10 September, 2016

11.30am-12.30pm

Kirsty Eagar’s Summer Skin (an ‘In Conversation’ with Stacey Clair) 

Venue: QAG LECTURE THEATRE

To book

 

4pm-5pm

Fifty Shades Flipped

50 Shades took the world by storm. Now meet three women, Emily Harris, Karen Pickering and Kirsty Eagar who are busy positioning sex in a positive light.

Venue: QM THEATRE

To book

 

Sunday 11 September, 2016

11.15am

The Re(a)d Box

BWF’s beloved reading series is back! Immerse yourself in the work of some truly remarkable writers as they share their writing in this beautiful and intimate riverside space. Seating in The Red Box is limited and unreserved, so get in early on the day to see your favourite Festival artists. 

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