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Brazil World Cup Writers
World Cup writers World Cup writers – those impatient Brazilians are so greedy for goals they’ll take them anywhere anytime! Yes, Sydney School of Arts & Humanities even had an Australian representative at the game! Photo credits Jasmine McDonald Williams and Claudio Rodriguez, wearing the colours of Australia – or, wait a minute, …
Writers Workshop: Earliest Memories of Wireless and TV in Wales
Best memoir writing from Our Memoir Group (OMG) in Sydney this week comes from Robert Spencer: My parents owned a ‘His Masters Voice’ (HMV) wireless, which was placed on the sideboard in the lounge room near the fireplace. As a young child I was always drawn to the emblem on the front of the wireless […]
Sydney School of Arts & Humanities shows it cares for the ABC
People turned out in wintry weather today for a show of support for the ABC. Sydney’s Martin Place came alive to the sound of drums, Wendy Harmer, ex-702 breakfast host Adam Spencer, ex-Media Watcher, Jonathan Holmes and others … and Sydney School of Arts & Humanities caught a couple of snaps. Contact 0432 289 311 […]
Memoir group on ANZAC Day
On Anzac Day, members of our writers workshop Sydney memoir group OMG! participated in a session of readings of correspondence between soldiers of the Great War and their loved ones in Hyde Park. The excerpts came from Love Letters of the Great War (Macmillan, Lon, 1914) edited by Mandy Kirkby. All the WWI letters showed […]
Easter Monday Renascence
Easter Monday, the day that we, as a family in the 1950’s, would go to the Royal Easter Show. And yet today I find myself working towards the culmination of four weeks of hard labour preparing our home for sale. This day is warm with vibrant blue skies, revealing the early morning moon still ascending, […]
Unexpected Success for New Creative Writer
First-time creative writer and friend of our school, Gerry O’Sullivan, has self-published an ebook thriller, Gangsters of Shanghai, to unexpected international success. He finds it’s been placed on the Amazon.com Kindle top 10 list in the historical thriller genre. So far the book has sold over 19,000 copies. The sales on Amazon.com, Amazon.UK and …
SSOA & Facebook
Having rejoined Facebook after several years of absence due to focussing on SSOA, I gape at the productivity of some correspondents. I feel the way I felt this evening as I gazed at this bank of gums … that is as an observer in awe. From my brief experience so far, Facebook offers as much […]