Samantha Memi‘s chapbook, Kate Moss & Other Heroines, has just been published by Black Scat Books as part of its Absurdist Texts & Documents series. The chapbook includes Samantha’s short story ‘Bouffant’, which has previously appeared on this blog, and other gems like ‘Kate Moss versus the Millipede’. Samantha sent me a surprise gift from the UK, […]

Eronnie Samuels and Alan Harris are visual artists who work in the same creative warehouse as I do. (You might recall I blogged last year about Eronnie’s 2011 Sun Studios exhibition.) To celebrate the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, the two artists teamed up for a joint exhibition, which opened on 3 November at […]

The comeback edition of The Lifted Brow (No. 14) is out now. In it is a super short review I wrote about Peter Corris’ 1980 crime fiction debut, The Dying Trade, which introduced the wisecracking, hardboiled detective, Cliff Hardy. My piece was part of a team effort to review 30 Australian classics recently released by Text Publishing. The Text […]

We had confirmation over the weekend that the screening of Colin the Dog’s Fabulous Midnight Adventure and Another Story at the Good Dog! International Film Festival will be on Saturday 18 August 12.15-1.50pm at Balmain Town Hall. Colin is part of the Best Australian Short Films in Competition session and will be screening first in an 11-film line-up that includes The […]

This story is by Samantha Memi, a writer whose work consistently makes me snort in an unladylike manner. *** Bouffant I was Marie Antoinette with my hair done up so high I couldn’t lean over in case I toppled and fell. A little bird who had a nest in my hair flew out and said: […]

Mushrooms I found this morning.

This is the little corner of the world where I spend a lot of time twiddling my thumbs and looking out the window at the bellies of planes. I’ve had this writing studio since Christmas 2010. Prior to that, I had grand dreams of building my own writing hut. It was going to be as […]

More good news for our short film, Colin the Dog’s Fabulous Midnight Adventure and Another Story, which has been selected to screen in Balmain, Sydney, as part of the inaugural Good Dog! International Film Festival. There could not be a more perfect place for Colin to screen. Parts of the short story on which the film is […]

Very proud to have been at the St Kilda Film Festival on Saturday 26 May to see the world premiere of Colin the Dog’s Fabulous Midnight Adventure and Another Story, which screened as part of Australia’s Top 100 Short Films. It was great catching up in Melbourne with some of the crew: director Grant Scicluna, […]

A selection of cartoons by Eric Dando, a writer I admire. the plot Aspects of the Novel only two flavours booty is this funny? not wrong at all is it? tribute to Henry Dreyfuss teapots uppity love poem pork pies *** About Eric Eric Dando was born in Tokyo in 1970 and lives in Daylesford, Victoria. Copies […]