Book review – Fleeced. AWWC2012
books & writing
literature, genre, fan-fic, blogging, graphic novels, web-comics etc etc
All that happened at number 26 – book review
Book Review: All that happened at number 26
Australian Women Writers 2012 Reading and Reviewing Challenge
What Mindy is reading for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012
2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge in summary
Jo Tamar’s summary post for the 2012 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge.
The reading iceberg: promoting ‘serious’ male narratives over ‘trivial’ female narratives starts at school
It took me years to realise that I had been educated to privilege men’s writing over women’s. Like a lot of girls educated in the ’70s and ’80s, I grew up reading a canon of ‘great literature’ written by men (and, primarily, for men) … At school we read almost exclusively male writers … our one woman author was Jane Austen.
2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review: Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
Jo Tamar’s fourth review for the 2012 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge – Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung.
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.
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 