conference in Jamshedpur, India

27 January 2010

I will be a guest at the International conference “Diaspora Space: Voices and Voyages” on 20th to 22nd February, 2010 at Women’s College in Jameshedpur, India

15 May 2009

literary social events in Antwerp

Monday 11 May I attended a dinner for 24 people from Belgium’s literary scene at Villa Hellebosch, in the countryside

http://www.beschrijf.be/index.php?q=beschrijf/residents_writings/

Wednesday 13 May I was invited to lunch with scholars from the Peter Gilles Centre at the University of Antwerp where they research world views, pluralism and tolerance.

22 November 2008

Australian Studies conference Sri Lanka Dec 2- 5

I will be a guest at this conference in Sri Lanka for the Association for the Study of Australasia in Asia (ASAA) from December 2 - 5. I’ll be giving a reading there as well as attending other papers and readings.

See:   http://www.asianaustralianstudies.org/ASAA_2008_conf-flyer.pdf

22 November 2008

Film Bazaar, Goa, India

I will be attending the Goa Film Bazaar from November 26-29.

I will be pitching my films Neem Dreams and With The Tiger.

Will be catching up with Binger people and Indian film people.

27 September 2007

Readings at Ledig House

I’ve been at Ledig House for a week, am here til the end of October. This evening there’ll be public Readings at the Visitors Centre, where I’ll be reading along with the current other residents. To find out more, click on ‘ledig house’ on this link:

http://www.artomi.org/

click also on ’sculpture park’ to see the surroundings

14 September, 2008

“Amsterdam, one winter” in Australian Author

My piece about being at Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam has come out in the August edition of Australian Author magazine, page 34.

14 September 2008

Chateau de Lavigny

http://www.chateaudelavigny.ch/

My time at this wonderful, beautiful, peaceful place ends on September 15. I have been living here with four other writers:

• Jean-Paul Barbe, France
• James Canon, Columbia
• Hilde Keteleer, Belgium
• Mariko Nagai, Japan

3 August 2008

goodbye Rome hello Nimes

I left Rome and the BR Whiting Library on July 31 after 6 wonderful months based there. Now i am spending a few weeks in Nimes in the south of France staying with an old friend, Sue Howe and her partner Daniel de Rudder. After this it will be Chateau de Lavigny…

Saturday, May 10, 2008

With The Tiger has been published

I received my first copy of my new novel With The Tiger just published by HarperCollins India.
What a beautiful cover!

Here’s the page at the HarperCollins India site:

http://www.harpercollins.co.in

Monday, April 7, 2008

Australian Women’s Writing at Budapest, April 2

Then on April 2nd i spoke with another exceptional group of students in the course on Australian Women’s Writing co-ordinated by Dr Ceclia Gall at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.

April 1 2008

Budapest, Australian studies

April 1st in Budapest, i spoke at the weekly 90 minute long seminar in the “Focus on Australia” course at the Eötvös Loránd University (in the Faculty of Humanities), co-ordinated by Dr Dorottya Hollo, who also assisted my journey in many ways.
Terrific group of students, interesting questions and responses; they had been asked to read my story My Transylvanian Cousin - so it was interesting to disucuss that in this context!

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Rome residency

At the beginning of February I began my six month residency at the BR Whiting Library in Rome, Italy, granted by the Australia Council.

I will be writing a memoir.

“Neem Dreams” screenplay at Binger Film Lab

At the end of January, I completed five wonderful months at Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam.

As one of a group of 18 writers I wrote a screenplay adaptation of my novel Neem Dreams (developed to second draft).

See under “film-makers” at the Binger web site

Sunday, February 24, 2008

“Party Girl” in Wet Ink

My short story “Party Girl” was published in Wet Ink magazine in December 2007.

Read here