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Blogger.com
Grumble Grumble - having switched to a google account I created a new blog amongst the little collection I manage for New Writers' Group Inc. I created a profile. I discover that all those blogs now have a ZineWest profile - including of course my personal photo blog. You can fiddle with the html a bit but basically from what I can work out - one ( Read more... ) -
ZineWest
Yayyyyy! Crime thriller author (and University don) Professor Jane Goodall has agreed to be our judge for a new look ZineWest which will be open to all western sydney writers. We have a pot of 200 dollars for 1st prize, (not enough to attract professional types) plan a multimedia event to present the contributors and based on the zine we've just ( Read more... ) -
Richard Flanagan - The Unknown Terrorist
Ive just read my copy of November ABR and got excited. How can you get excited over a very drab looking literary mag? Well because the arguments inside are fast and furious. Two well known 'debators' (I nearly said combatants) are at it again - or at least one of them has thrown down the gauntlet ( Read more... ) -
Getting published....
Ho hum ( Read more... ) -
The Festival is over...
Came home from o'seas trip end of June but was plunged straight into festival madness, hence no entries in LJ amongst no lots of other things. But now the poets and the tutors and musos are done - it is over. I've even had time to get rid of all the comment spam on our poor little website (but to keep it off I've had to close automatic registration ( Read more... ) -
USA
So here I am in the USA ( Read more... ) -
Websites
I am finally returning to the land of the living and the sane. My website NWG Inc looks a bit sloppy still (it's more sensitive to my bad html)but at least I can edit admin pages. The upgrade of my postnuke site was done via the host SiteGround according to their instructions but lots of things broke in the process. I posted to two forums but Mike ( Read more... ) -
Media - oh no not again - this time re Milosevic
I really know very little about the 1990's war in the former Yugoslavia but I know more than the people writing the quick grab statements in the press. That is I know enough to know that its too hard for me to figure it out that easily ( Read more... ) -
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A Western Sydney artist Fida Haq and some members of NWG Inc have been bouncing around ideas for a multi-media art work with a word base. Simple idea really - we provide the words and Fida does all the work! But no, Stewart Peters has promised to do the audio in his professional studio and if it comes off, others will be involved in promotion, ( Read more... ) -
Irresponsible media - again
I'm glad to hear that Paddy McGuiness doesn't take kindly to people fabricating events and getting themselves published in Quadrant (which McGuiness edits).
SMH article[Quadrant is too right wing for me - check out the muddled contradictions in http://www. ( Read more... )