The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards recognise Australia's most exceptional literary talent, both well known and aspiring. The winners of the 2011 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced: http://www.premiers.qld.gov.au/awards-and-recognition/literary-awards/2011-winners.aspx
A provocative novel about love and death and the narrow line between them. Over one weekend in a small Tasmanian town, a transsexual mortician prepares three bodies for burial at a funeral home. As she carefully works on the Kremmer son, the Esterhazen girl and Mr Phillips, she reflects on her own unusual life and childhood – her father’s obsession with taxidermy and other darker pursuits, her own induction into the arts of taxidermy, the death of her parents and her ultimate transformation from man to woman. Her sex change was a tentative step towards finding somebody to love her, and ...
By Paula Grunseit ‘Literacy is like breathing; that’s how important it is,’ community leader and NCIE Director Sol Bellear said as he spoke at Friday’s Book Week event which highlighted the value of books, reading and education. According to figures published by the National Year of Reading 2012 initiative: ‘There are 46 per cent of Australians who can’t read newspapers, follow a recipe, make sense of timetables, or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle.’ National Literacy and Numeracy Week and Indigenous Literacy Day are other upcoming initiatives aimed at changing these alarming statistics. The event, which brought together 400 school children from ...
September 12, 2011 in feature-image by heyjude
The Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards recognise Australia’s most exceptional literary talent, both well known and aspiring.
The winners of the 2011 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced: http://www.premiers.qld.gov.au/awards-and-recognition/literary-awards/2011-winners.aspx
May 4, 2011 in Uncategorized by qldtheatreco
YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS PROGRAM, Queensland Theatre Company
Calling all young playwrights (15-30yrs) -entries close on Friday 24 June 2011
February 14, 2011 in Uncategorized by BWF
Exceptional international guest at Brisbane Writers Festival bookend event in March! Exclusive Brisbane appearance:
Andrew O’Hagan will appear at State Library of Queensland | Friday 11 March, 6:30PM.
February 7, 2011 in Uncategorized by uniqld
For more details on the School of EMSAH and our achievements in 2010, please follow the link:
http://www.uq.edu.au//emsah/eoy2010/index.html
November 19, 2010 in Technical writing, Writers, publishing by Queensland Writers Centre
To become a working writer, there are certain things you need to know.
Firstly, there is the craft of writing. Things like: verbs are the engine room of every sentence, and “writers’ block” is unfortunately not made of chocolate.
But then, there is also the business of writing. And with the Australian publishing industry in a state [...]
November 19, 2010 in Events, Fiction by uniqld
The School of English, Media Studies and Art History’s centenary event takes its inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s famous remark that “on or about December, 1910, human character changed.”
The event celebrates the influence of Virginia Woolf and her circle on the past 100 years of literary and visual culture, asks questions about the relationship between human character [...]
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