Congratulations to Ian Walkley, who recently celebrated the launch of his first novel, No Remorse, at Coaldrakes in Brisbane. You can read more about Ian’s work at his website …
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Felicity Castagna
Another Olvar Wood alumni is enjoying enormous success with the publication of her collection of short fiction, Small Indiscretions: stories of travelling in Asia.
A traveller becomes a Monroe impersonator in the casinos of Macau. An obsessive son of Australians living in Jakarta confronts his strange rituals. A young woman is trapped in the boredom of her father’s ministry in exotic Borneo. A daughter defies her mother and travels to Bali. Castagna’s twenty stories range across countries: including Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and China, deftly exploring the relationships of parents and children, lovers and enemies, the transient and the resident. In the spirit of Rattawatt Lapacharoensap’s Sightseeing, Castagna’s fiction powerfully captures the landscapes and cultures of Asia and the intriguing interactions of Westerners with it.
Paul Garretty
Paul Garrety, whose manuscript won an inaugrual Olvar Wood Fellowship Award, is going from strength to strength in his writing career. His latest novel, The Emerald Tablets (sequel to The Seventh Wave, has recently been released by Harper Collins).