Internet Fiction Digest #3

May 17, 2013

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Writing this from Lithgow. It’s freezing. But the vibe is right for reading. This week’s fiction snippets are from all over. Firstly one from home, from the Griffith Review’s WOMEN AND POWER issue in it’s cheeky ‘online only’ section, by Suvia Mahonen titled The Fig Tree. It’s feisty and engaging, narrated by a 36 year […]

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Internet Fiction Digest #2

May 10, 2013

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So yeah, you love reading, it’s stimulating, all that, but your life just flies by, too much work, too much fun, oh no. Novels are insurmountable…  Give up? NAY! Welcome to your next internet fiction digest: some of the best stories the webs have to offer. First up: the wide world of NPR. It’s world-famous […]

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What Happened at Historical Penguin

April 23, 2013

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On April 2nd Penguin Plays Rough spent an evening at the Mitchell Library in the Friends Room, furnished from wall to wall with an extensive collection of Miguel de Cervantes’ work. The featured writers read stories inspired by material from the State Library’s Special Collections. The audience sipped wine and nibbled on the assortment of […]

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Adventures South of No North: Week 3

March 28, 2013

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In week 3 of the Adventures South of No North series, Nitin Vengurlekar introduced us to protagonist Bertie Ingtonlandsonman, postman and erstwhile coffee table in his story “The Crimes of Neville Umbrellaman”. Bertie decides to digitise his perishable goods to save on grocery bills and while shopping for toner he meets Bernard, artist and analogue […]

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Adventures South of No North, Week 2

March 21, 2013

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  Fair to say that last week at the MCA, Melbourne writer and make-shit-happener Oliver Mol let rip on the gallery space. He threaded a wild and sprawling travel narrative through the South of No North exhibition space, taking us from deepest weirdest Texas, up through sexy Canadian ski ranches,  down for some epiphany-having in […]

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Adventures South of No North: Week One

March 14, 2013

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Last Thursday, at 6pm, a small group of us huddled around Spiderman, who stood frozen before a face leaping out of a wall of the MCA. Zoe Coombs Marr was nearby with microphone in hand, ready to make sense of it all, and the MCA staff stood behind, armed with paper, pencils, and clipboards. Zoe […]

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Moments in Ornaments

March 7, 2013

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You try to pull it apart, say something different, re-size and squash it into a new and meaningful nugget. But it’s made of its own parts, and differs from itself – and summarising it feels reductive as ever. Ornaments From Two Countries gathers a wide variety of GLBTIQ stories, poems, and essays. It’s a collection […]

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