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To the Lighthouse: Week 6

Posted on December 15, 2021 by Karen Whitelaw

I’ve printed off the first draft of my novel and here it is! Today I’m up at the lighthouse reading it. Is it any good? No, it’s a first draft! Although the writing needs work – a lot of work … Continue reading →

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To the Lighthouse: Week 5

Posted on December 8, 2021 by Karen Whitelaw

Only one week left of my residency! It’s gone impossibly fast. People have asked me how they can apply for a residency. Here’s the link to Lighthouse Arts where you’ll find all the info you need. Karen Croft, the Director … Continue reading →

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To the Lighthouse: Week 4

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Karen Whitelaw

Writing is, in the main, a solitary pursuit, but there’s something about being up at the lighthouse, each creative artist in our separate studios, working together but apart, that gives us both a sense of creative community and the quiet … Continue reading →

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To the Lighthouse: Week 2

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Karen Whitelaw

“Lily stepped back to get her canvas – so – into perspective. It was an odd road to be walking, this of painting. Out and out one went, further and further, until at last one seemed to be on a … Continue reading →

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To the Lighthouse: as an artist-in-residence

Posted on November 10, 2021 by Karen Whitelaw

To the Lighthouse The sky threatened rain and the walk along the breakwater to the lighthouse, lugging all the things I’d need for the day including my computer, suddenly seemed a lot longer. Nobbys Lighthouse is on an island in … Continue reading →

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Writers’ Festival Gems

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Karen Whitelaw

Every writers’ festival has its own personality. Sydney Writers Festival is big, brash and busy. The speakers are the top of the literary game nationally and internationally, as well as including promising new authors. But it’s so huge now you … Continue reading →

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Newcastle Writers Festival

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Karen Whitelaw

April 6-8, 2018  Newcastle Writers Festival is becoming one of the most dynamic and friendly festivals in Australia for both writers and readers. It attracts big names in the world of writing and ideas: Robert Drewe, Jimmy Barnes, Kitty Flanagan, … Continue reading →

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Generating Writing Ideas

Posted on April 28, 2017 by Karen Whitelaw

One of the questions writers are asked most often is, where do you get your ideas? At the Newcastle Writers’ Festival I went to a great session on Microfiction where author Susan McCreery talked about her New Year’s resolution to … Continue reading →

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Writing Colour

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Karen Whitelaw

This week I watched my friend Virginia, an intuitive painter, throw aquamarine and cobalt blue onto a green, purple and vermilion background, and then spray on water so the gleaming paint dripped down the canvas like rain. I could drown in … Continue reading →

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Man Booker Winner 2016

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Karen Whitelaw

I heard Paul Beatty talking about his novel The Sellout on Radio National’s Books and Arts . It’s an insightful interview by Sky Kirkham. The Australian Independent Bookseller had this to say about the novel that won this year’s Man … Continue reading →

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