POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Television Flickers’ by Bel Schenk
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AUTHOR GUEST POST: Wendy Scarfe on revisiting the past
In this special guest post, Wendy Scarfe talks about her experiences writing A Mouthful of Petals with her late husband, Allan Scarfe.
A Mouthful of Petals is a nonfiction account of three years working in an Indian village in the early 1960s. Previously published, it became a minor classic, and has since been re-released by Wakefield Press. This new edition includes an account of Wendy Scarfe’s return trip to Sokhodeora during a famine in the late 1960s, and how those who live in Bihar state fare in the early twenty-first century.
‘It describes with warmth, sympathy and occasional near-despair, the life of an Indian village from the inside’ – Nancy Cato
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Reynard’s Raid’ by Jude Aquilina
Poetry really is for every person and every age, as today’s Poem of the Week shows. Our weekly poetry spotlight is shining on children’s poetry book Tadpoles in the Torrens, a poetry anthology edited by Jude Aquilina.
DEBUT AUTHOR JOURNAL: Receiving a publishing contract!
As we launch this new blog series in 2020, Poppy Nwosu is the published author of two young adult contemporary novels, Making Friends with Alice Dyson and Taking Down Evelyn Tait. Yet back in 2018, she had just signed her first publication contract for her debut book, and she really had no idea what the future might bring.
This collection of blog posts (originally written by Poppy between March 2018 and March 2019) chronicles her experience during that strange year of limbo between signing a contract and seeing her first book released into the world by Wakefield Press.
For today’s post, Poppy speaks about how it feels to finally receive a publishing contract (and what you should do next).
GUEST POST: John Read on the lessons lockdown has to offer
John Read is used to working remotely, and often in accidental isolation. An ecologist and author, John lives on South Australia’s largest privately managed nature reserve with his wife, children and endangered malleefowl and marsupials.
We asked John to write about his experiences living and working in the most remote parts of Australia, and how things have changed (if at all) as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Subject Matter Sonnet’ by Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton
Today, discover a poem taken from The Elsewhere Variations, a collection by Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton. This week’s poetry feature is ‘Subject Matter Sonnet’.
#LoveOzYA STUDY GUIDE: Introducing Catch Tilly’s teaching video series
Join Australian author (and former teacher) Catch Tilly as she explores themes and ideas, gives writing tips and offers text analysis of her hard-hitting young adult anti-bullying novel, Otherwise Known as Pig.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘An Uncertain Future’ by Geoff Goodfellow
Today we are looking at iconic and award-winning Australian poet Geoff Goodfellow for our Poem of the Week blog series. The poem is ‘An Uncertain Future’ taken from the very interesting textbook and teacher’s resource The People’s Poet Transformed (also by teacher Rebecca Bond).
How to Work From Home: Lainie Anderson’s tips
Welcome to the week, and to a new blog series here at Wakefield Press! Introducing How to Work From Home: Authors talk about how they stay productive.
Like many others, we’ve recently begun the transition from office work to working from home. It’s a strange transition to make, and we need some help. We’ve interviewed a collection of our favourite authors to get their best tips, tricks and truths about working from home.
Next in the series is Lainie Anderson. Lainie has been a weekly columnist with Adelaide’s Sunday Mail since 2007, and previously worked at the Herald Sun in Melbourne and The Times in London. In 2017 she travelled to nine countries on a Churchill Fellowship to gauge the significance of the pioneering 1919 flight from England to Australia and the Vickers Vimy aircraft now housed at Adelaide Airport. Lainie was South Australia’s Epic Flight Centenary 2019 program ambassador.
Using war diaries, letters and Churchill Fellowship research from along the race route, Lainie’s Long Flight Home recreates one of the most important – and largely forgotten – chapters in world aviation history.
DEBUT AUTHOR JOURNAL: How hard is it to get published?
As we launch this new blog series in 2020, Poppy Nwosu is the published author of two young adult contemporary novels, Making Friends with Alice Dyson and Taking Down Evelyn Tait. Yet back in 2018, she had just signed her first publication contract for her debut book, and she really had no idea what the future might bring.
This collection of blog posts (originally written by Poppy between March 2018 and March 2019) chronicles her experience during that strange year of limbo between signing a contract and seeing her first book released into the world by Wakefield Press.
For this first post, Poppy speaks about how difficult it really is to get published.