Greetings dear reader, Creative conundrum: my busyness with Stereo Stories these past two years has run parallel with me writing less stories about the beach and the family and sport and suburbia. Has the need to think about staging, lighting, guest performers, set lists, running sheets, public liability, social media and heavens know what else […]
Greetings dear Reader, It’s nearly time for the annual Williamstown Literary Festival. This year I’ll be busy on two fronts. On Friday evening 12 June I’m chairing Swimming In Ink at Seaworks, featuring novelists Jock Serong, Favel Parrett and Enza Gandolfo. If you love the sea and love reading about the sea, you’ll have a […]
Okay, so ‘tour dates’ may be overstating the case a little, but I’m delighted to announce that Stereo Stories Live will be at the Williamstown Library on Sunday afternoon 19 April, and then at Newstead (near Castlemaine) on Saturday evening, 2 May. The one-hour Willi library gig will include five new stories and three new […]
Early bird tickets are now on sale for the Williamstown Literary Festival in late May. I’m chairing two sessions: The Spoke ‘n’ Word on Tuesday evening 27 May will feature cyclists/authors Tom Doig, Kate Leeming, Greg Foyster and Sophie Chishkovsky talking about their (very) long-distance cycling adventures. Stereo Stories Live Volume 1 on Saturday afternoon […]
Bookshops are in the news again, with bookstore chains such as Borders and Angus & Robertsons hitting hard times. But what of the small independent bookshops, especially those that sell second-hand books? Here’s a story The Age ran some years back, about a local bookshop. It begins: You turn left at the post-office and there […]
February 1, 2016
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