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Category Archives: Working mother
Children’s Book Festival 2013
As a writer, I experience vicarious joy in the celebration of other writers. And celebrations don’t come more joyful than at the Children’s Book Festival, held annually in Melbourne by The Wheeler Centre in partnership with the State Library of … Continue reading
Agatha Christie on travel
I picked up a copy of Agatha Christie – An Autobiography in preparation for a panel I’m chairing at the Melbourne Museum next month. I’d intended to skim it, concentrating on the parts that are relevant to the panel discussion. … Continue reading
Posted in Melbourne, Working mother
Tagged Agatha Christie, Leonard Woolley, Max Mallowan, Melbourne, travel
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Childish things and death
Last week I attended the funeral of a dear friend’s father, which meant attending mass at the Catholic church in the parish where I grew up. For the better part of 18 years, I spent every Sunday morning and often other … Continue reading
On being a writer and mother
‘I felt guilty but I still put my art and my life in front of my family.’ So says artist John Wolseley of his decision to leave England and his two small sons to move to Australia to paint (GoodWeekend, … Continue reading
Posted in Working mother
Tagged books, Edgar Degas, John Wolseley, Mothers Day, Virginia Woolf, women writers, work-life balance, writer and mother
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Celebrating Children’s Books
Kudos to the Wheeler Centre for Books Writing and Ideas for today’s Children’s Book Festival. I heard a number of speakers describe it as Melbourne’s ‘first’ Children’s Book Festival, and I’m hoping this means it will become a regular fixture … Continue reading
Author talk in Phnom Penh
It’s been a while between posts. I put it down to consultancy work that took me to six different countries in the last six weeks of 2008 and the first two weeks in 2009, followed by a holiday (punctuated with … Continue reading
Another milestone
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA – (Drum roll) I finished the third draft of my second novel last Sunday. Loyal readers of this blog (Hi Mum!) who recall my post when I finished my first draft will be wondering what happened to … Continue reading
Posted in About the author, Angela Savage, Working mother, Writing
Tagged draft, Living Room Phnom Penh, manuscript, milestone, Phnom Penh
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Crime and Justice Festival Program
The Crime and Justice festival program was released yesterday and to my surprise, I am appearing on three panels. All sessions are in a space called ‘The Refectory’ (which sounds ecclesiastical): Saturday 19 July, 10am – A First Offence: Crime and … Continue reading
Posted in About the author, Angela Savage, Working mother, Writing
Tagged Crime and Justice Festival, Writers Festival, writers panel
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Writer in Residence
Over the past week, I was Writer in Residence at MLC, a girls’ school in Kew. It sounded like such a glamorous prospect: being given an office in an imposing building, where I would work on my next prize-winning novel … Continue reading
Posted in Angela Savage, Working mother, Writing
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