by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 2, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
Some interesting articles have been published recently bemoaning the perils of the internet. They tend to fall into two topical camps: reading and thinking. This New York Times piece, “Online, R U Really Reading?” describes changing reading patterns among...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 18, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
I’ve been busy finalising the content, format and handouts of two workshops I’m facilitating at next week’s Byron Bay Writers Festival. Hopefully the weather will continue sunny and dry, as Byron’s not nearly as much fun when it’s grey...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 7, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Noosa is no place to be when it’s raining. Nor when it’s pouring, as it was last weekend while I was there to attend the inaugural Reality Bites festival of nonfiction in Pomona, about twenty minutes’ drive from Hastings Street. The two-day event,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 2, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
Here is a highly amusing account by Washington Post journalist Gene Weingarten of winning the Pulitzer Prize for this article – lauded at the time as original and groundbreaking – about a stunt which turned out to have been a brilliant if unintentional...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 20, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
Last night was the official opening of the Sydney Writers Festival, which began with an impassioned and lightning-sharp address by Jeannette Winterson at the Sydney Opera House. She danced between Picasso and politics and poetry with a dazzling athleticism of mind....
by Virginia Lloyd | May 13, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
The PEN Poem Relay – the Olympics of freedom of expression – is in full swing en route to Beijing for August. The poem “June” by imprisoned Chinese journalist and poet Shi Tao has now been translated into more than 90 languages. The poem is...