(song) Adrianne Lenker, Sadness as a Gift (2024)
Month: March 2024
Martin Flanagan and Cameron Hindrum in conversation
Thursday 21st March 2023 — 18:00 to 20:00
UTAS Inveresk Library celebrates Tasmanian Reads Week with ‘The Place that Made Us: Martin Flanagan in conversation with Cameron Hindrum’.
Martin Flanagan explores what it is about Tasmania – its places. its stories, its people and its ghosts – that seep into the bones and the imagination of a creative soul such as Cameron Hindrum, who has called the island home all his life.
What are the defining cultural moments and narratives that both define Tasmania and are reflected in the art that is produced here?
How is this reflected in the seminal reading, writing and creativity that has occupied Martin and Cameron in their various literary endeavours?
All welcome.
Ticket provides general admission to the talk.
Book sales will be available at the event.
Research journals and gatekeeping
Caitlin Cassidy, The Guardian, 10th March 2024
“We’ve set up a crazy system where publishers own and control knowledge and we’ve let them do that,” Foley says. “Researchers give content for free, sign over copyright, and publishers make a lot of money.
“You can get rubbish, nonsense and misinformation online for free but you have to pay for the good stuff. We need to make sure we’re getting the right information out there.”
Journal publishers have one of the highest profit margins of any industry, taking in an estimated $20bn US a year.
More Margaret Drabble….
A throw-away line from her novel, ‘The Peppered Moth’ |
‘Bessie is a widow now, and she and Chrissie are … pretending to watch BBC nine o’clock news. (Bessie refuses, in company, to acknowledge the existence of commercial channels, though she has occasionally and inadvertently betrayed her acquaintance with them.)’
Omar Sakr, Jinghua Qian and Alison Evans — writers’ workshops cancelled
(Kelly Burke, The Guardian, 6th March 2024)
Omar Sakr, Jinghua Qian and Alison Evans have been left to speculate on whether cancellations relate to their pro-Palestinian stances.
State Library Victoria has cancelled a series of writing events out of concerns over “child and cultural safety”, leaving some of the participants demanding an explanation.