Tag Archives: Angela Savage

Adelaide Writers Week 2020 Program

Posted on 31/01/2020 by Angela Savage

I am thrilled to be on the Adelaide Writers Week program as an interviewer for the third consecutive year. I’ve fallen in love with this festival since first attending in 2018 and look forward to participating both as a chair … Continue reading →

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Out of the starting gate

Posted on 19/01/2020 by Angela Savage

Escher jigsaw: a distraction in troubled times It has been a tumultuous start to the new year/decade, as Australia suffers through an unparalleled bushfire crisis, the fate of entire communities–human and animal–subject to the vagaries of a sudden wind change, … Continue reading →

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The Great Debate

Posted on 07/12/2019 by Angela Savage

Further to my last post about saying yes to everything, in late November I found myself in the pulse-pounding position of being on stage before a live audience at the Village Roadshow Theatrette at the State Library Victoria for the … Continue reading →

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A shell to your ear

Posted on 15/10/2019 by Angela Savage

Since releasing my new novel Mother of Pearl on 1 August, I’ve had the great pleasure of being interviewed for several radio book shows as well as my two favourite writerly podcasts. The Garret: Writers on Writing is, as the … Continue reading →

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Books that changed me

Posted on 13/09/2019 by Angela Savage

Being a fan of the regular column, ‘Books that changed me’ in The Sunday Age, I was delighted to be invited to submit my own list, which I managed to whittle down from around 400 to four. This post originally … Continue reading →

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More reviews for Mother of Pearl

Posted on 06/09/2019 by Angela Savage

There are good book reviews, which are nice. There are also reviews which see not just to the heart of your book, but hear the murmurings of your subconcious as you wrote it, and you soar like an eagle because … Continue reading →

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MWF19 – Watching them Grow: From Page to Screen

Posted on 03/09/2019 by Angela Savage

My Melbourne Writers Festival 2019 experience started early on Saturday morning with an email from US YA author Becky Albertalli, a panellist on the ‘Watching Them Grow: From Page to Screen’ session I was chairing that afternoon, to say she … Continue reading →

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Early reviews for Mother of Pearl

Posted on 02/08/2019 by Angela Savage

Early reviews are coming in for my new novel, Mother of Pearl, and I’m blown away by the thoughtful and insightful responses to the book so far. Author Cass Moriarty writes, ‘In Mother of Pearl, author Angela Savage has given … Continue reading →

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Mother of Pearl is launched

Posted on 29/07/2019 by Angela Savage

I feel a bit like a book is a ship, the building of it takes so much labour, the structure engineered over and over, to make it watertight, to get it to float and then the leap of faith. Off … Continue reading →

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Coming soon to a festival near you (Part 3)

Posted on 22/06/2019 by Angela Savage

Winter is here, possibly the best time of year for reading and talking about books. Early next month, I’ll be doing just that in Geelong at an ‘Author Encounter’ with Sarah Hopkins, talking about her latest novel, The Subjects, an … Continue reading →

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