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Author Archives: Angela Savage
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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Tweeters: The Birdman’s Wife
Artist Elizabeth Gould spent her life capturing the sublime beauty of birds the world had never seen before. But her legacy was eclipsed by the fame of her husband, John Gould. The Birdman’s Wife at last gives voice to a … Continue reading
On Reading, take #2
What makes a great read? What gives books their power over us? Have you ever read a book that changed you? After being rescheduled due to Victoria’s snap COVID lockdown in February, I will be chairing the event On Reading … Continue reading
Coming soon to a town hall, library, brewery near you
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve thought of the line from the Robert Burns poem ‘To a Mouse’ in the past 12 months: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley” (often paraphrased … Continue reading
Posted in Angela Savage
Tagged Animals Make Us Human, Castlemaine, Echuca, International Women's Day, Kyabram, library
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