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Author Archives: Angela Savage
Terror Australis 2022
I am greatly looking forward to returning to Tasmania next month for the Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival 2022 (TAF2022). I had the great pleasure of being part of the inaugural festival in 2019 in Cygnet and the digital … Continue reading
Port Fairy Literary Weekend
I’m thrilled to bits to be appearing at the inaugural Port Fairy Literary Weekend, brainchild of local bookseller Jo Canham of Blarney Books. Officially, I have two events: Launch of The Settlement by Jock Serong Hosted by Angela Savage Sat … Continue reading
Warm Winter Read
‘Grab your book, blanket and beanie – we’re hibernating with books this winter!’ In my day job as CEO of Public Libraries Victoria, I’m part of a working group behind the Warm Winter Read, a campaign designed to encourage readers … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Christos Tsiolkas, Claire G Coleman, Helen Garner, Jane Harper, Jock Serong, Maxine Beneba Clarke, reading, rebecca Lim, Toni Jordan, Warm Winter Read
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Willy Lit Fest 2022: Days Like These
I am delighted to be appearing at this year’s Williamstown Literary Festival aka Willy Lit Fest, with the theme ‘Days Like These’. I first appeared at Willy Lit Fest 15 years ago as an emerging crime writer, alongside Garry Disher … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Festival
Tagged Angela Savage, Harry Sadler, Jock Serong, Literary Festival, Steven Conte, Willy Lit Fest
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St Kilda Writers Festival 2022
It’s been a long time coming, but after multiple Covid cancellations, the St Kilda Writers Festival is happening late-May. Sisters in Crime Australia is a festival partner and thanks to them, I’ve got a number of choice gigs and I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Festival
Tagged Angela Savage, Robert Gott, Sisters in Crime, St Kilda Writers Festival, Vikki Petraitis
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Adelaide Writers Week
I am delighted, excited and also a little hesitant to say that I have been invited back to Adelaide for Writers Week in 2022 to chair a couple of panels. Delighted because Adelaide Writers Week is a wonderful cultural event, … Continue reading
Post-lockdown (hopefully)
During most of the six months since I last posted to this blog, I’ve been doing what sociologist Corey Keyes calls languishing. The uncertainty caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic was exacerbated in my hometown of Melbourne, where we achieved … Continue reading
Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2021
While the COVID-19 pandemic keeps proving time and time again that ‘The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley’ as Robert Burns would say, and the situation in states outside Victoria notwithstanding, the easing of restrictions … Continue reading
Love Letters
Nearly 10 years ago, I was contacted by a stamp collector, who’d found a letter to my father, Haydn, from his father, Les, among a bulk lot of first day covers bought at auction. I wrote about this extraordinary story … Continue reading
Posted in Family history
Tagged fathers, first day cover, gratitude, Haydn Joseph Savage, Leslie Joseph Savage, stamp collecting
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