by Anne Skyvington | Sep 4, 2023 | Writing A Novel, Writing Australia
I’ve always liked Susan Johnson’s writing, ever since I found a piece by her in the Griffith Review Journal (Number 32), in which she painted a picture of motherhood that I empathised with. I used it as an example of voice in fiction in a post on this...
by Anne Skyvington | Apr 20, 2023 | Guest Post, Travel
A Guest Post on The Art of Creative Writing website, this post written by Roger Britton How it all started We had been hosting Chinese students in our home for several years from our sister school in Jinan. Each one stayed with us for two years at a time attending...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 8, 2023 | Writing Australia
I live in Coogee near the beach with my husband of 47 years. Coogee is located on Sydney’s famous Coastal Walkway, which stretches from Bondi Beach to Maroubra Beach. The Eora people were a vast and complex Indigenous group of family and kin relations who occupied the...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 7, 2023 | Writing Australia
The Past Lives in Us Charlie Perkins, an Aboriginal activist, who was the first indigenous person to study at the University of Sydney in the sixties, believed that “the past lives in us”. Sometimes the past, through the land, sings to us, he’d said. Aboriginal...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 5, 2023 | Writing Australia
I was brought up on pictures of real-life kings and queens: of princes and princesses, dukes and duchesses. Mum loved the photos of the royals in glossy publications, such as the Australian Women’s Weekly magazines, in the fifties and sixties. She identified with the...
by Anne Skyvington | Dec 27, 2022 | Writing Australia
When Grace Tame from Tasmania fled to Santa Barbara in California in 2019, she was diagnosed with high functioning autism. This diagnosis, coming nine years after the abuse event began, filled in an important piece of the puzzle that had led to her being abused by a...
