Nicky Gluch’s latest book, The Universal Language, has been promoted with an article published in the jewish report in Sydney this week. It includes an extract from her book about visiting Israel in 2013/14 and how her time there …
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LATEST SSOA BOOK by NICKY GLUCH
Nicky Gluch’s latest book – launched in a spirit of reconciliation and universality at Ariel Bookstore this week. The Universal Language is a memoir about the unity of music set in the complexity of Israel. It shows how, as …
NEW LIFE FOR SYDNEY’S HARRY JENSEN
News this week that the City of Sydney is soon expected to come alive again with a change in the late night entertainment laws. The announcement coincides with the launch of the 60th anniversary of the launch of the Harry …
Obituary: Leo Ryan
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 …
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 these days. 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 …