Category: Blog
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Krampus Crackers
The Christmas project I’m curating and editing for Brisbane indie publisher Tiny Owl Workshop has launched! We’re looking for Christmas-themed flash fiction inspired by the Krampus myth. Twelve stories, accompanied by six illustrations by artists including Terry Whidborne and Simon Cottee, will be made into sets of ‘Krampus Crackers’, to be distributed in various hot locations around Brisbane…
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Check Out
Things I’ve been up to: Writing a four-part serial story for Steez magazine. Steez is a US-based snow, skate & culture quarterly, and they’re basically too cool for me. But they’re featuring my story ‘Rocky’–about a stolen parrot–over the next four fantastic issues. Check out Part I in Issue 31 here. Reading at June’s ‘Whispers’…
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SPUN.
If you live in Brisbane and you like stories, you need to know about Yarn. NO SILLY, not that kind of yarn. Cats love this Yarn better, seriously. I’m talking about Yarn: stories spun in Brisbane, the bi-monthly storytelling event series held in bars and cafes around our beautiful city. Inspired by the New York-based The…
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Hot Key Books Young Writers Prize Shortlist
Another bit of cool news–my manuscript for young adults, The Button Makers, has been shortlisted for the Hot Key Books Young Writers Prize 2013. This is something I’ve been working on since 2009, so if you’ve talked to me about writing in any capacity over the last four years, you’ve probably heard me mutter a little…
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Top 10 Literary Ladieeees
No Elizabeth Bennetts or Hermione Grangers here. This list isn’t of the best or most admirable female characters I’ve come across in literature. They’re just my favourites; the ones I seriously enjoyed reading about. Some of them are dazzling, some awful, some lovely, some seriously sick–much like, umm, real women in the real world. This…
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SLQ Young Writers Award
Cool news – My short story Lingerie has won this year’s State Library of QLD Young Writers Award. I have to thank the State Library for running the competition. They believe young people should be rewarded for writing stories! What an awesome thing. The runner-up and highly commended stories are fantastic, and I think we’ve…
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Hey Brisbane,
You’re pretty wonderful. This isn’t really related to books or writing, but I’ll give myself a free pass in order to briefly pay homage to my home city. I’ve been back for two weeks now and perhaps it’s just fickle ‘absence-makes-the-heart-etc.’ sentimentality, but Brisbane is far more beautiful and promising than I remember. It’s like…
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Because It’s The Season…
I just finished watching this panel-style interview by The Hollywood Reporter with screenwriters Judd Apatow, Mark Boal, David Magee, Chris Terrio, Michael Haneke, and John Krasinski. Most of these writers are either nominated for Academy Awards themselves or wrote the screenplays for award-nominated films. All of them have some terrific insight to give into the…
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The Real Oz
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m writing something at the moment that deals with Australian mythology and folklore. But what, you may ask, exactly is that? Last week, we celebrated Australia Day–a national holiday much contested for its choice of date (sometimes referred to as ‘Invasion Day’, etc.). Debates aside, it’s become a…
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My Friend, Fantasy
With the recent release of the first installment of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy, and the impending airing of the third season of HBO’s acclaimed Game of Thrones, I feel as if there’s been a renewed interest in the fantasy genre among my social circles as of late. This makes me happy, as I think…
Kahli Scott 