Tag: "literature"

The Story Of Mary MacLane By Herself
0 Comments. 1,461 Views. Posted 25 Nov 2011 @ 10:39am.
In 1890 Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren published their seminal article, The Right To Privacy . With the lives of public figures increasingly subject to invasive media surveillance via pages of magazines and newspapers, Brandeis and Warren argued that the law should recognise the right of individuals to be free from such invasive attention. Not long after, a young female writer by the... Read More
Koraly Dimitriadis vs Ben John Smith
0 Comments. 1,272 Views. Posted 7 Nov 2011 @ 8:29am.
There's a theory that art must be confronting in ord er to be genuinely experienced. Like an evening news bulletin indulging a regular diet of death and destruction to attract and maintain its audience, art has frequently come wrapped up in an abrasive political covering. Ben John Smith, publisher of poetry online zine Horror Sleaze Trash , loves his confrontational poetic rhetoric... Read More
The Melbourne Writers Festival
0 Comments. 1,275 Views. Posted 18 Aug 2011 @ 9:29am.
With just over one week to go until the Melbourne Writers Festival, tickets are selling fast. This year's program has been described by program director Jenny Niven as a "behemoth" - 400 writers all spanning not only the literary tradition of printed, fiction and non-fiction but also other forms of storytelling. The name of the festival this year is Stories Unbound which Niven points to... Read More
The Joy Of Text: Robert Reid
0 Comments. 2,189 Views. Posted 7 Jun 2011 @ 10:41am.
True to its titillating title, The Joy Of Text manages to link literary theory with sex. Melbourne playwright Robert Reid explains how he wrote a play that makes thinking about text sexy.   MTC describes The Joy of Text as a “satirical dissection of education and its discontents”. That’s quite vague, but fortunately Reid is happy to elaborate. “Aside from being set in a school, [this... Read More
Write Through June
0 Comments. 1,426 Views. Posted 18 May 2011 @ 2:23pm.
All of you young Aussie writers aspiring to be the next J.K Rowling, now is your time to shine as National Young Writers Month kicks off this June. Launched by Express Media, National Young Writers Month will involve everything from blogging, podcasts, online forums to workshops and lectures aimed at supporting and encouraging writers to achieve their personal goals over the month of June.... Read More
Overload Poetry Festival
0 Comments. 2,198 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:12am.
When you think cool, accessible and multi-media you probably don't think poetry. You also probably don't think a bunch of stuffy guys from the 18 th Century sitting around in drawing rooms and writing by hand is your cup of tea. Well it's not Luis Gonzalez Serrano's, director of the Overload Poetry Festival in Melbourne, either. The Festival is running now until Sunday... Read More
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