Writers' Festivals

Listening to the Perth Writers Festival

Yes, it’s a fair while back that I actually went to February’s Perth Writers Festival but I’ve only just got around to catching up on the promised podcasts of the sessions. At the time, some of the session organisers had promised that they would soon become available online to listen to, and in February and [...]


Melbourne Festival of Travel Writing provides a few sparks

It may not be fiction writing, but being able to attend the Melbourne Festival of Travel Writing while I was in Melbourne was still useful for my fiction writing ambitions.
The biggest message I got from attending the Saturday sessions of this festival was the one I usually get whenever I see writers speak: published book [...]


Inspiration from the Writers Festival

All my blogs have been a bit empty over the last week, because I spent a few days at the Perth Writers Festival. It’s the first I’ve attended since coming back to Perth a year or so ago, and I was more than pleasantly surprised at how professional it all is - perhaps Perth isn’t [...]