Recently I listened to author Tara June Winch talk about her Miles Franklin Award winning nove, The Yield. Here are some notes from the evening.
Tag: berlin
Berlin’s Bauhaus architecture
Tautes Heim on the UNESCO-listed Horseshoe Estate in Neukolln, Berlin One of the best ways to appreciate the impact of the Bauhaus School is to wander the streets of Berlin and see the work its members and their contemporaries left behind. Founded in Weimar in 1919 and ending in Berlin with the rise of National… Continue reading Berlin’s Bauhaus architecture
Writing workshop: using place names in your writing
When writing prose, it's easy to get stuck on the mechanics of the story – who is speaking? Was the baby asleep in the last scene? Could it really be dusk already? .... and the writing itself can sometimes feel secondary, just a means of getting your characters from A to B. So turning up… Continue reading Writing workshop: using place names in your writing
Poets: the top shelf spirits of the writing world
While ordinary writers paddle between the flags at the beach, a poet will free dive the Titanic. They go there. And yet, the word poet just sounds so genteel and lovely.
To do list item 245: start blog
Starting a new blog has been on my to-do list for a while. A social media presence is helpful for writers, and as I am currently revising my novel in the hope of having it accepted for publication I need to start now. However, in October 2018 I moved with my family to Berlin, my… Continue reading To do list item 245: start blog
