At SSOA we first came to know Leo Ryan when he submitted his manuscript for An Extraordinary Relationship. It was a remarkable text which addressed the importance of exposing and rejecting violence against women in relationships. We discovered that …
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Jeremy Gilling – A Tribute
It is with deep sadness that I’m communicating here news of the recent death of Jeremy Gilling, a longtime activist, writer, journalist and editor, who always placed a high priority on human rights. If you would like to share in …
Diversity
Author Wil Roach is on a literary highway this month. First, copies of his memoir BLACK, GAY & UNDERAGE began to appear in Sydney bookshops after a celebratory launch in Ariel Bookstore, Oxford St, Darlinghurst. The memoir is available on …
NEW BOOK SUCCESS BLACK, GAY & UNDERAGE
Wil Roach’s memoir BLACK, GAY & UNDERAGE has already garnered general reader enthusiasm as well as invitations for the author to participate in upcoming GLBTQI activities. Launched by Paul Capsis just over a week ago, the first part of Wil …
New Authors – New Writing SSOA Anthology
New Authors – New Writing It’s a real pleasure for SSOA’s first Anthology of short stories (edited by Christine Williams and Maria Issaris) to have been received so enthusiastically by the reading public. A skyful of stars, an architect’s dream …
A timely reminder
Gender issues are in the limelight lately in what might seem unlikely places: Hollywood, live theatre, Presidential communiques and UNHCR asylum assessment … The news footage coming out of India’s southern state of Kerala has been remarkable over the last …
New year, new resolution. By mid-January, how tedious!
Two responses from the SSOA writing groups on the start of 2019: Response 1 Well, actually, I embrace the new. I embrace resolutions. This year it’s, ‘Get real and finish the memoir!’ After three previous drafts I now have a …
New year review
That was then – view here – our Christmas 2018 performance This is now – 2019! The general view about the quality of writing coming out of SSOA’s meet up groups is that we’re more than happy. Self-congratulation perhaps? Not …
Writings of the Week
So this is Diversity at Christmas Two pieces to deepen the Christmas experience here: one from a Spanish Australian and another from a Greek Australian. A gesture towards appreciating national differences in the Christian celebration … A Different Christmas It …
All you Need is Love this Christmas
Love is All You Need at Christmas – from London to South Africa We sat as a family picking over the remains of our traditional Trinidad Christmas Day breakfast of freshly baked coconut bread and ham that Mum had cooked …