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Joanne Anderton
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Dec 01
Freedom to create: Arteles residency, Finland October 2018
In October I was lucky enough to participate in the ‘Enter Text’ Residency Programme from Arteles Creative Centre, Finland. Arteles is one of the largest and most international residency centers in Scandinavia and pride themselves on providing the freedom to be creative. A month living with twelve other writers and artists in an old house in the woods, …
Dec 01
Creative Non-fiction, it’s a thing
While completing my Masters I was lucky enough to be introduced to Creative Non-fiction, a genre I hadn’t really heard of before but quickly discovered I absolutely loved. One of our assignments was to write a personal essay inspired by an object. I chose a human skull (of course), and started writing about donating your …
Dec 01
Playing catch up
When you don’t update your website for too long you have to play catch up. In between finishing my Masters of Arts in Creative Writing (hooray!) and travelling around the world a few times (also hooray!) I’ve managed to promote The Flying Optometrist and publish a few short stories (all the hoorays!) Let’s start …
Oct 23
And now for something completely different…
Coming April 2018 from the National Library of Australia… The Flying Optometrist! The Flying Optometrist travels in his little red aeroplane from his practice in the city to a remote outback town. Lots of people are waiting for him! Young Stephanie can’t wait for him to arrive as she has broken her glasses and …
Oct 11
PodCastle!
In super exciting news, my Aurealis award-winning short story ‘Bullets’ is now up at PodCastle for your listening pleasure! Okay so it’s a horror story, and it’s pretty dark, so maybe pleasure isn’t the right word? Check it out here!
