BOOK LAUNCH INVITATION
……..Meet Our Gold Coast Anthology Authors………………J.S. Choinski
![A flood story with a twist, by J.S. Choinski
Delivering bread via a boat which was rowed through flood waters to stranded homes, Waterford, 1947. [picture]
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J.S. Choinski Deliver Me What are you reading at the moment? I just started reading Charles Palliser’s Rustication, a gothic thriller. I’ve also been playing TellTale’s The Wolf Among Us, based on the graphic novel series, Fables. What’s your connection with the Gold Coast? I moved to the Gold Coast from overseas, when I was
…Meet Our Gold Coast Anthology Authors…………..Jocelyn Hawes
![Jocelyn Hawes was inspired by this photograph.
Looking out through the natural archway formed by Cave Creek undercutting the soft volcanic rock at Natural Bridge, Springbrook National Park, Queensland, 1959 [picture] / Ray Sharpe, photographer.
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Jocelyn Hawes Dear Sam What are you reading at the moment? I read books in many different genres including thrillers, romances and family epics. I enjoy Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher books. Kerry does an amazing amount of research and takes the reader down many interesting paths. Tell us about your story in one sentence. Dear
……..Meet Our Gold Coast Anthology Authors…………..Elli Housden
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View from Rainbow Bay, Coolangatta looking across the Coral Sea with lone surfer in the ocean, to the Surfers Paradise horizon, Queensland, circa 1990 [picture] / Ray Sharpe photographer.
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Elli Housden Snapper Rocks What are you reading at the moment? I’m reading 10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2011 (a bit late) which features Australian writers like Cate Kennedy and John Birmingham as well as some newer writers. What’s your favourite place on the Gold Coast, and why? My favourite place on the
………Meet Our Gold Coast Anthology Authors………….Di Morris
![In 'the clearing,' a place of mystery and revelation. Written by Di Morris.
Twin Falls in the Warrie National Park, Springbrook, Queensland, 1956 [picture] / Ray Sharpe, photographer.
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Di Morris The Clearing What are you reading at the moment? Summer of the Hot Tubs by Annie Proulx. I love her short story collection (which includes Brokeback Mountain). It is full of Wyoming characters, written with droll humour, an acute eye for detail encapsulated in brilliant spare prose. What’s your favourite place on the
Meet Our Gold Coast Anthology Authors………….Thoraiya Dyer
Thoraiya Dyer Jumpinpin What are you reading at the moment? “Heartsick for Country,” edited by Sally Morgan, Tjalaminu Mia and Blaze Kwaymullina. What’s your favourite place on the Gold Coast, and why? Probably Tamborine National Park? I can’t resist lyrebirds or rainforest. When I was little, I loved the feeling of lorikeets at Currumbin climbing
……….Meet Our Gold Coast Anthology Authors………..S. Elliot Brandis
S. Elliot Brandis Empty Calories What are you reading at the moment? I just finished a novella by Ernie Lindsey called Upgrade. It was published as part of the Kindle Worlds program, in which Amazon opens up a fictional universe for other writers to play in. Upgrade is set in the world of Marcus Sakey’s
…….Meet Our Gold Coast Anthology Authors……..Kathleen Bleakley
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Children feeding lorikeets at Currumbin Sanctuary, Queensland, circa 1980 [picture] / Photographer unknown.
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Kathleen Bleakley Frangipanis What are you reading at the moment? Together, my partner & I are reading Suzanna Clarke’s A House in Fez. My birthplace is Morocco and we travelled there to celebrate my 40th birthday. A House in Fez are autobiographical tales of 2 Australian journalists living in Fez, Morocco and restoring a
The Proof Has Landed
Tonight I get to announce the exciting news that our physical proof has arrived. It was a nerve-wracking time waiting for it, but it has turned out beautifully. It is slightly surreal holding something you have only seen digitally, as an object in your hands. Shauna O’Meara’s art and the photos especially shine. I have
Know what this is?
Well of course it’s Broadbeach Library … But this is the true birth place of the Prana Writers group. Where we met for the first year with Louise Cusack after winning the Write that book competition run by Gold Coast City Council in 2009. What an impact that’s had on all of us. We were