Tag: Australia

• Story City

  I’ve just wrapped up my recent project, working as a writer for Story City– an interactive choose-your-own adventure story app. Story City was started by the wonderful Emily Craven as a way of celebrating the cities we live and play in through digital locative storytelling. The stories you’ll find on the app are like old school…

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  October 4, 2015

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  Adventure Stories, Apps, Australia, Brisbane, Children’s Writing, Creative Process, Culture, Digital Storytelling, Ghost Stories, Interactive Storytelling, Literary Apps, Literature, Storytelling

• 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…

  kahlis

  May 9, 2013

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  Australia, Brisbane, Cities, Queensland, Tourism, Travel

• 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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  February 1, 2013

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  Australia, Folklore, Mythology, Writing