In 2020 and onwards we call for greater diversity in literary boards & memberships of elite literary organisations, institutions, judging panels & posh publications that receive mega funding: fling the doors open wide, the doors are broken #Interceptionality
'On the same day that the Morrison government announced they were giving $500 million to defence so they can buy bigger guns, I learned that Overland was not invited to renew its four-year funding from federal arts body the Australia Council.' https://t.co/y0tBqY0rM4
We also talked about how much we love @PerilMag founding editor @hoap 's THE OTHER SHORE - 16 yr old psychic hired by the Vietnamese gov to reunite remains of the dead with descendants
See: https://t.co/Z9pHc7aRMj
'The idea that art is born of leisure, during times of peace, is a simplistic romance, a non-artist’s daydream.'
On the importance of literature (even when the world is burning)
https://t.co/Q11s0yNXmJ
@aliettedb Totally feel for you I told myself I didn’t have to achieve anything this year and I have raised 2 kids redrafted a novel and a screenplay been in a writers room for a mini series and held down a day job...