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Title: Daughter of the River CountryAuthor: Dianne O’Brien with Sue WilliamsGenre: MemoirPublisher: Echo PublishingPublished: 2021 Trigger warning: contains mention of sexual and physical
Title: The Shape of SoundAuthor: Fiona MurphyGenre: Biography & MemoirPublisher: Text PublishingPublished: March 2021 As I read Fiona Murphy’s debut novel, The Shape
Title: Eating With My Mouth OpenAuthor: Sam van ZwedenPublisher: NewSouth PublishingGenre: MemoirPublished: February 2021 Eating With My Mouth Open is a deeply personal
Title: Emotional FemaleAuthor: Yumiko KadotaGenre: MemoirPublisher: Penguin Books AustraliaPublished: March 2021 Emotional Female is a debut memoir by former-surgeon Yumiko Kadota. It is
Title: Shanghai AcrobatAuthor: Jingjing XueGenre: MemoirPublisher: Black Inc. When I heard that readers of Mao’s Last Dancer would enjoy Shanghai Acrobat, I knew
Image from Pexels free images Kill Your Darlings First Nations Editor-in-Residence ‘We are now accepting non-fiction pitches and submissions from Aboriginal and/or Torres
Title: How to be Australian Author: Ashley Kalagian Blunt Publisher: Affirm Press Favourite quote: “I couldn’t do the PR application, and more urgently,
Image from Canva Free Stock Images Writing long-form nonfiction can be difficult; there is a fine line between cramming as much interesting information into a book or article,
‘I’ve got a story to tell, but I don’t know how to go about it?’ As writers, it’s not uncommon for us to
Becoming a writer involves so much more than just having a talent for telling stories. There are so many aspects you must consider
Wollongong Writers Festival Short Story Prize 2018 Seeking short stories up to 2,500 words on the theme ‘Feeding Time’. Entry is $15, closing
Graham Wilson, self-published author of the Old Balmain House series and the Crocodile Dreaming series Graham Wilson, author An interview by Shelley Timms Graham Wilson
Title: Honey Farm Dreaming Author: Anna Featherstone Genre: memoir Themes: Australian farm life, sustainability, agriculture, animal husbandry, humour, learning Favourite quote, p. 167:
In 2018 I’ve challenged myself to read further outside my usual habits, so this To Be Read list features two memoirs, a historical
Women of a Certain Age is a collection of 15 vastly different, but all beautifully written stories about what it’s like to be
I divide my To Be Read lists into roughly long-term and short-term lists. My long-term list is far too long to write about