I entered a short story in the 2014 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Prize and received my response the other day. Dear Jolley Entrant This year almost 1200 writers entered the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The judges have now compiled their longlist, and I regret to say that your story (or stories) were not … Continue reading Rejection Achievements
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Review: Saving Mr Banks
I walked into the cinema, already endeared. I walked out heavy of heart with a new perspective. When you're a child you don't think about how stories came to be; we just take them as they are all starry eyed and grinning ear to ear. The tale of how the uptight appearing P.L. Travers came … Continue reading Review: Saving Mr Banks
Review: The Scrivener’s Tale
Fiona McIntosh, The Scrivener's Tale, Sydney, Harper Voyager, 2012, 499 p. What unexpectedly started as one ordinary man named Gabe working - and emotionally hiding - in Paris, McIntosh throws the audience and Gabe into another dimension where we find yet another one of her in depth faraway lands. Morgravia. It is then we leave … Continue reading Review: The Scrivener’s Tale
Beck Borona 