My daughter sent me this photo today. At first glance it looks as if I’m reading a book to the four grandchildren gathered around me. Sadly this isn’t so as on closer inspection we are all staring at my phone.

Inside Out Julie Twohig, winner of the Alan Marshall Short Story Award, open prize 2018 An award-winning writer, Julie’s short stories and creative non-fiction have been published in Award Winning Australian Stories, the SALA Short Story Collection, Stringybark Anthology, Page

It’s with a heavy heart that I leave the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre today. Thanks to a glitch with Tiger Air cancelling my flight yesterday, I scored an extra night here in my little bubble. It’s a bittersweet ending.

Late last year I was granted a two-week residency at the KSP writers’ centre in the Perth hills, a Fellowship to be taken in July 2017. I was thrilled. It felt like a massive validation for my work-in-progress. Potential was

I am thrilled to have been awarded a 2017 Fellowship at the Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Writers Centre. As one of 12 recipients, this two-week residency will give me the luxury of precious time to further develop my current long-form

12 Classic Books That Got Horrible Reviews When They First Came Out. Reviews are undeniably subjective. Although the twelve classics in this article have stood the test of time (as well as their critics’ opinions) a damning review might prove

Julie Twohig, Full circle (Review) Thank you so much, Whispering Gums!

http://www.dubbophotonews.com.au/index.php/dpn/categories/arts-entertainment/item/3468-delete Delighted to discover an excerpt from my novel-in-the-making made it to the finals in the 2014 Cowley Awards. It happened in September but today is the first I heard about it ~ lovely news.

In 2007, Full Circle was my first winning story and my first short fiction to be published. Around the Block: Our Darebin Community, the anthology in which it was published, along with short listed and an assortment of other stories,

Australian Love Stories edited by Cate Kennedy. Glowing reviews to wet the appetite. This is a an exquisitely presented anthology featuring a line-up of well known along with new and emerging authors contemplating the myriad meanings of love.

Thanks Mel Campbell for this excellent and candid discussion about the difficulties & challenges of being a (midlist) writer: **Mel Campbell** published her first book, *Out of Shape*, last year. Since then, she’s been struggling with ideas of what it

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6116/the-art-of-fiction-no-214-alan-hollinghurst Such a generous interviewee is prolific writer Alan Hollinghurst. I’m struck by his candour and willingness to share vulnerable insights. I’m also struck by his final statement: It’s wonderful just to live in the world of creation and know

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6040/the-art-of-fiction-no-206-michel-houellebecq You’d need the hide of an elephant such that a vat of Pond’s Cream wouldn’t soften, but this technique clearly works for Michel Houellebecq!

This excellent article in Narrative Magazine discusses the tendency of writers to write-off other writers’ writing (tongue-twister!) based on their opinions of the content rather than the craft, reminds me of heated discussions in my novel-writing class that were fueled

Thrilled that my short story Paradise – which last year Arnold Zable selected as the winner of the local section of the Alan Marshall Short Story Awards – has been selected for publication in Melbourne Book’s anthology Award Winning Australian

2014 Fiction Edition Invitation The lovely Magdalena McGuire, one of the amazingly talented women in my writing group, has had her short story ‘Polish Cooking for Beginners’ chosen for publication in The Big Issue’s 2014 Fiction edition, Take Me Away.

My daughter Chloe Twohig has many strings to her considerable bow. Chloe is a song writer, singer and guitarist, as well as a shiatsu practitioner, mother to two amazing children and when she finds time, writer of children’s fiction. To

‘Childhood’ by Frances Cornford. Lovely perspectives on aging, and again in this poem as seen through the eyes of one as yet young.

The still waters of Alice Munro’s Nobel prize-winning writing | The Australian.