by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 29, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
This question was the topic of one of the final sessions of the PEN World Voices writers’ festival. I took the subway into Manhattan and found one of the few remaining seats at the Instituto Cervantes – a place I’d never heard of before, an Upper...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 27, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
I am almost cross-eyed after many hours in front of the computer today writing applications for approval of something called “fiscal sponsorship” from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). For individual artists, fiscal sponsorship means an...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 25, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
Having just today paid my membership dues for the Sydney branch of PEN, the international association of writers working to “advance literature, defend free expression, and foster literary fellowship”, I am thrilled to report on an event I attended...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 23, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
Regular readers might remember I attended a sublime concert of jazz music recently at Carnegie Hall featuring Brad Mehldau and Pat Metheny. My review of said concert has just been published on the website of SIMA, the Sydney Improvised Music Association. Back in the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 23, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
I think the weekend just passed is the first since I started writing this blog that I did not post anything new. Apologies, gentle reader, but I was busy learning and networking at the American Society of Journalists and Authors Conference all day Saturday and Sunday....
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 18, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
Last night at my PlayGroup writers’ meeting I let slip I would be giving up my Brooklyn apartment when its lease runs out at the end of August, and returning to Sydney shortly thereafter (quick side trip to Europe in September). I was taken aback by how upset...