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The Writer Behind The Curtain

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Sharona

May 14, 2012

Voiceworks talked to three of the writers featured in Voiceworks #88: Translate.

FICTION
Oliver Mol
Cunt Angel
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VW: Did anything in particular inspire this piece?

OM: When I was young, maybe nine, I had my first kiss with this girl named Melanie to Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’. Not a proper kiss, just on the lips. Then she moved away and I moved away and all this time passed and one day I said what is her name maybe I can find her on Facebook and then I did find her on Facebook and she had moved to Armidale and was pregnant and was part of this group “I like blokes who drive utes” and “yewww utes” or something. Then I thought about contacting her. I guess this was my inner monologue or my way of dealing with it. The story, of course, is a tragedy.

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• Alice Grundy
• Q&A
• Seizure

Q&A with Alice Grundy

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Rosanna Stevens

Nov 17, 2011

It’s been a while, Q&A, but we thought it’d be worth meeting again. Last Saturday, new literary magazine Seizure launched its second edition — themed Sci-Fi – in conjunction with the Speculative Fiction Festival at the NSW Writers’ Centre. Best of all, Editor-in-Chief Alice Grundy is Voiceworks contributor alumni. We nabbed her on the day after the launch, and sat down to talk words — in all capacities — for a few moments.

Aside from being only just too old to contribute to Voiceworks anymore, and being E in C for Seizure, Alice works by day as a Project Editor for a trade publisher. She has a BA Hons from  the University of Sydney and a Graduate Certificate in Editing and Publishing from UTS where she was an editor on the 2010 Anthology. (more…)

• Joan Didion
• Kill Your Darlings
• Michaela Mcguire
• the age
• The Big Issue
• The Lifted Brow
• Women of Letters

Q&A MONDAY: MICHAELA MCGUIRE

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Jodie Kinnersley

Jul 19, 2010

Michaela McGuire is a Melbourne writer. Her first book “Apply Within: Stories of career sabotage” was published last year by MUP. She co-curates and hosts ‘Women of Letters’ which is Melbourne’s loveliest literary event TM. She is currently working on her second book, a collection of essays, that will be published by MUP in 2011. Her writing has appeared in The Age, Kill Your Darlings, The Big Issue, JMag and is forthcoming in The Lifted Brow.

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• Boxing
• Mischa Merz

Q&A Monday: Mischa Merz

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Jodie Kinnersley

Jul 12, 2010

Mischa Merz’s book Bruising about her experiences as a boxer, was published to critical acclaim by Picador in 2000. In 2002 her essay Body Blows – Sport and the Threat of Female Muscularity was included in the Overland Lecture Series.  Her short fiction has appeared in Meanjin, Island, Overland and the Cardigan Press Anthologies Normal Service Will Resume and Allnighter. Her journalism has appeared in The Age, The Sunday Age and the Herald Sun and various magazines and specialist publications. She is the 2001 Australian Amateur Boxing League women’s welterweight champion. (more…)

• lisa dempster

Q&A MONDAY: Lisa Dempster

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Jodie Kinnersley

Jul 05, 2010

Lisa Dempster is the Director of the Emerging Writers’ Festival. She is a professional editor and writer who has been published widely, including book titles Neon Pilgrim and The Words We Found: the best writing from 21 years of Voiceworks magazine. As the publisher at indie outfit Vignette Press she created the sub-cultural journal the Sex and Death Mooks. Lisa is a committed vegan, and is the editor of The Melbourne Veg Food Guide.

She blogs at www.lisadempster.com.au.

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• Australian Poetry Centre
• Chloe Wilson
• events
• poetry
• voiceworks

Q&A MONDAY: CHLOE WILSON

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Jodie Kinnersley

Jun 28, 2010

Chloe Wilson is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. Her first collection, The Mermaid Problem, was published by the Australian Poetry Centre in 2010 and will be launched this Thursday 1 July at the Wheeler Centre. Her poetry has appeared in The Age, Blue Dog, Wet Ink, Voiceworks and is forthcoming in Going Down Swinging. In 2009 she won the Poetry and Youth categories of the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards and the Page Seventeen poetry prize. She is a former poetry editor for Voiceworks.

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• green guide
• lorelei vashti
• the age
• the enthusiast
• the vine
• Writing

Q&A Monday: Lorelei Vashti

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Sam Cooney

Jun 21, 2010

Lorelei Vashti. Female. Lives in Melbourne (for the minute). Member of the literati brat-pack (my invention). Is regularly published in a whole heap of places, including The Age (weekly column), TheVine, Behind Ballet and is famous for her insane Courtney Love updates for Defamer. Also, her blog is chock-a-block full of excellent pieces you won’t find anywhere else. Absolutely crazy, in a hug-and-kiss-a-stranger way (not a knife-in-the-back-of-Monica-Seles way).

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• Reading
• sleepers publishing
• spunc
• Writing
• zoe dattner

Q&A Monday: Zoe Dattner

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Sam Cooney

Jun 14, 2010

Zoe Dattner. Female. Lives in central Victoria, Australia. Writer of fiction and nonfiction. Co-founder and Creative Director of Sleepers Publishing. General Manager of SPUNC (the Small Press Underground Networking Community), a peak organisation that represents, advocates, and promotes more than eighty small publishers around Australia. Is also a graphic designer, and has worked in pretty much all areas of publishing. Kicks arse about town. (more…)

• chris flynn
• dog's bar storytelling
• falcon versus monkey
• torpedo

Q&A Monday: Chris Flynn

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Sam Cooney

Jun 07, 2010

Chris Flynn. Male. Lives in Melbourne. Born in Belfast, Ireland. Editor of quarterly fiction journal Torpedo. Has had stories published in a range of publications, including Ampersand, The Lifted Brow and the latest edition of Meanjin. Writes book reviews, sits on and hosts panels, translates Jules Verne novels, commands attention in public lectures and is writing his own novel. Pretty much the most sought-after bloke going around.

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• black ice
• cate kennedy
• dark roots
• Interview
• the new yorker
• the world beneath
• Writing

Q&A Monday: Cate Kennedy

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Sam Cooney

May 31, 2010

Cate Kennedy. Female. Lives in north-east Victoria. Has published a novel, a travel memoir, two collections of poetry and many stories (including the short fiction collection Dark Roots). Born in Lincolnshire, England before moving to Australia in her childhood. Has won a variety of short story accolades, and just last month won the People’s Choice Award at the New South Wales Premier’s Awards for her novel, The World Beneath.

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