1. Saccades: short stories delivered…
A newly compiled and polished edition of my short story collection Saccades is now available in both print and digital editions. It’s the first of two releases from the web site over the next few months leading up to Off the...
2. Upcoming Book: Off the Record
With Sean Sennett, I have just completed co-editing an anthology of music interviews from Australian street press.
Off the Record: 25 Years of Music Street Press will be published on 25th October 2010 by UQP and features interviews...
Masterclass at Brisbane Writers Festival
I’ll be lending my digital head to the Australian Writers Marketplace Industry Masterclass at this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival.
This industry seminar will introduce you to agents, publishers...
Bookish love
I read an interesting article (that that predates the iPad) from the Wandering Academic. Throughout, the post references Anne Fadiman’s celebrated essay where she characterises book lovers into...
Saccades: short stories delivered…
A newly compiled and polished edition of my short story collection Saccades is now available in both print and digital editions. It’s the first of two releases from the web site over the next few...
Authditor
Author. Editor. I tried coming up with a portmanteau for what I do, but the best I could manage was ‘authditor’ (given that ‘auditor’ was already taken). Somehow this unholy Vulcan-mind-meld...
Byron Bay Writers Festival
If you’re heading to the Byron Bay Writers Festival and you’re interested in writing (you poor sod), it may behove you to check out the Nuts & Bolts professional development workshop for...
Book Blog
We have set up a specific blog for Off the Record which will kick off this coming Wednesday at 25yearsofstreetpress.com. For your convenience, here’s the first post:
Off the Record has been compiled...
Upcoming Book: Off the Record
With Sean Sennett, I have just completed co-editing an anthology of music interviews from Australian street press.
Off the Record: 25 Years of Music Street Press will be published on 25th October 2010...
Reasons for waiting
Okay, I understand that few people will get the Art of Fighting reference in the title, but so what? The important thing is, progress continues on the frightening volume of work underway. And this is more...
TwitterFEST Preview
Tomorrow, I will host the second TwitterFEST session for the Emerging Writers Festival. The session today went down remarkably well, despite my turning up right at the end and contributing only by telling...
iPad discussion at EWF TwitterFEST
Alright, so the blog posts have been few and far between of late, but the general level of distraction is declining, so I’ll resume regular broadcasts in the near future when I have something worth...
About the Author
Simon Groth’s fiction has been given the nod in many illustrious journals and awards including the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards a couple of times. He usually writes sitting on a couch, surrounded by deadlines.
While he does own a few pieces, he himself was not personally responsible for assaying silver made in Copenhagen in the late nineteenth century. That was another Simon Groth.
The Twits
- One minute you're presenting at a writers festival, the next you're walking whippets to school. #weirddays http://yfrog.com/mkt13bj 4 hrs ago
- Is there a nicer place to wait than an art gallery? http://yfrog.com/1apenfuj 6 hrs ago
- If your partner gets snooty at you for reading eBooks, it might be time to trade up. http://nyti.ms/aTZTXV 1 day ago
- Sure I'm locked out of the house, but I'm locked out of the house with beer. 3 days ago
- More updates...
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