EWF, NGV, Straight Men Kissing

Hi! I'm still alive. Just neck deep in the Emerging Writers' Festival and loving every second of it.

Too busy to blog, but I'm twittering like crazy. Half the EWF happens on Twitter.

Point form update:

• Running Melbourne by Dusk for the Festival, a flash-fiction meets photography meets urban fantasy online storytelling project. Read! Comment! Submit! We had a story from Aurealis winner Kirstyn McDermott go up today. Very pleased.
• EWF Town Hall conference was inspiring and thought provoking.
• Jel got invited to TweetUp at the NGV Austrlia gallery, for a private tour of the new Indigenous art exhibition of Western Desert paintings.
• We joined the NGV, meaning we're members now of the Zoo, the Museum and the Gallery.
• I'm supposed to be on leave, but have to keep going back to work because of the organisational review.
• Behind on both Doctor Who and Game of Thrones.
• A drunken night at the festival club, and I end up starring on Straight Men Kissing.

And then there's this:



I mailed my novel off to the Text Prize yesterday.

I doubt it will win. It's too niche and too similar to the novel that won in 2009. But it's sent in. Complete strangers will be reading my novel. I have achieved at least that much.

Okay. Got to run.

If you're any kind of writer, you should seriously consider attending the Emerging Writers Festival. It is amazing. And for two years running they've had Scottish guests whose accents will make you swoon.