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Thoughts From Inside Your Arts Bureaucracy

June 10th, 2011
Posted in Literary Culture . Three Degrees of Uncoordination
By Ryan

I just got home from a day helping to select successful applicants to the Write in your Face (WIYF) round of grants offered by Australia Council (OzCo) and administered by Express Media (EM). Those links will tell you more about this whole shebang, but I’ll copy/paste the juicy bit for all our Canadian readers: WIYF grants [ READ MORE ]

‘Tailings’, by Nic Low

June 2nd, 2010
Posted in Literary Agency . Not Yet Books
By Ryan

Something else I’ve been doing lately, while not being a high-flying literary judge, is reading Nic Low’s novel manuscript, ‘Tailings’. Because I’m a youth-literature crusader and everything. Nic is not exactly ‘a youth’, but whatever. I’m familiar with some of Nic’s other arts work, so I was delighted when he asked me to read and [ READ MORE ]

Prizes Ain’t Prizes

November 23rd, 2009
Posted in Literary Culture . Opinion
By Ryan

Sam Cooney has an article about literary awards in the current issue of Voiceworks, and the critical take on such a holy grail inspired me to continue the conversation. I’ve touched on manuscript awards once before, and am regularly vocal, to people who ask, against wholesale acceptance of prizes as a wonderful and highly sought [ READ MORE ]

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