Jo Tamar’s fourth review for the 2012 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge – Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung.
arts & entertainment
music, stage, writing, comedy, cinema, telly, arts, sport, crafts, photography – all this and more!
Call for Guest Reviews: 2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge
If you’re having fun with the Australian Women Writers Challenge and you’d like to join the AWWC Hoydens, why not guest post your reviews here?
2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review: We of the Never Never by Mrs Aeneas Gunn
Jo Tamar’s third review for the 2012 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge – We of the Never Never by Mrs Aeneas Gunn.
2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review: Cargo by Jessica Au
Jo Tamar’s second review for the 2012 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge – Cargo by Jessica Au.
2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review: Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
Jo Tamar’s first review for the 2012 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge – Carpentaria by Alexis Wright.
Friday Hoydens: Ellyse Perry and Suzie Bates
There’s something about women cricketers… they just can’t confine themselves to one sport, dammit!
Whoydensday: A TARDIS in your own kitchen
I knitted a TARDIS dishcloth, and you can do it, too! Adventures in time and space and washing up.
Sunday Singalong: Violeta Parra
OK, this one is Violeta Parra, an incredibly haunting Chilean folk singer who saw folk music as a “weapon against oppression”. Yeah which revolutionary didn’t? She and her children became the song-writers of the left-wing political movement of her country…. Read More ›
“All I Ever Wanted” by Vikki Wakefield: A Review
Book one of my Australian Women Writers Challenge.
Does Mim sound like a goody two-shoes? She isn’t.
Does she know everything? She doesn’t. But she does know you don’t walk too close to the Tarrant house.
BFTP – Friday Hoyden: reading in public
This post is part of our Summer Slowdown repost series, and is revisited in solidarity with 15 year old Reddit user Lunam: comments on the original version of this post in October 2008 showed how often a dim view is taken of women reading in public.
Hoyden About Town 