• Conversations with Marianna Shek

    / January 25, 2020

    Marianna Shek was one of the writers I approached when I decided to profile writers on (or should the preposition be ‘in’? Do you appear in or on…) this blog because I really…

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  • Melbourne

    / December 13, 2018

    I went to Melbourne for the Deborah Cass award night and to catch up with friends.  The Deborah Cass award is open to anyone who was born overseas or has at least one…

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  • Deborah Cass Prize Shortlist

    / November 16, 2018

    “Hate is not only a political strategy, it is a failure of imagination, a lack of empathy. We can’t legislate for imagination, we can only do what people have always done: tell new…

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