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Willy Literary Festival 2017

June 11, 2017June 11, 2017by Jenny May Ackland2 Comments

I've never been to this festival (talk about being a bad Melburnian writer) but it's on next weekend and I am doing two things and really excited about being there. First is The Age of Experience on Saturday 17 June, 3.30-4.30pm where Christy Collins, Paul Dalgarno and I talk to Jane Rawson about being debut [...]

Writing process

TED Talk 2 – Elizabeth Gilbert

March 4, 2013March 4, 2013by Jenny May Ackland4 Comments

I might not be the only person in the world who didn't read Eat, Pray, Love. Yes, I poo-poohed it at the time. When I was in Bali on a family holiday in 2011, my sister was reading it. It seemed everyone had been reading it for years. You know that response you have when [...]