It feels to me like I spent the first four months of this year reading the 150 nonfiction entries in the 2008 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, writing The Little Green Grammar Book (UNSW Press, September 2008), and turning…

Over the weekend of 10–11 May 2008, I spoke at a conference hosted by the National Library of Australia in Canberra. The NLA runs the conference each year under a different theme; this year it was concerned memoir and all…

Milkweed Editions, the stylish US independent literary press, has signed my book The Blue Plateau. They’ll publish it in the US and Canada in the northern fall (October or so) of 2009.

I’m delighted to have the book…

The Little Red Writing Book comes out this July–August in the United States and United Kingdom—indeed, across the English-speaking world. Cambridge University Press is publishing it, and they’re calling it Writing Well: The Essential Guide.

Although Writing Well…

The first of my cowshed classes—long writing workshops held here in my Burradoo workshop—begins on 15 March. A class of eight writers will meet here every second Saturday for three months. I’m hoping the workshops will help writers develop manuscripts…