A piece by Jane Downing about an ancient story that appears in many cultures and oral traditions.
Tortoises and Hares
Category: Writers and writing
A Suit of Armour
A short story by Jane Downing, set in Beechworth around the time that Ned Kelly found inspiration for his armour. Originally published in Offset 15, Victoria University, 2015; shortlisted in The Age Short Story Competition, 2012.
“After my mother enlisted me in the Burmese Army”: A Story That Just Had to Be Told
From Bihar to Berkeley, the extraordinary life of Plum Rutherford Haet, written by Andrea Palmer of Gundowring, Victoria.
Book launch
FourW twenty-eight is this year's edition of an annual anthology of new writing and graphics from Booranga Writers’ Centre.
Worn linen covers, delicate illustrations and historical signifance: The Stanley Athenaeum collection
The old books of the Stanley Athenaeum are beautiful. Some are quirky, even a little bizarre. Others are historically significant.
Stanley’s Hidden Treasure
Stanley is known as a place of orchards and peaceful countryside. But hidden away here, among all the lush gardens, there is something extraordinary.
Write Around the Murray
Readers, writers, artist and storytellers gather from across the country to share stories, knowledge and skills
The Love Letter Response
The Love Letter Response Workshop was presented by Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) in association with The St Claire, an online arts journal based in Philadelphia, for this year's Write Around the Murray (WAM) festival. Kirsten, Mary and Justine reflect on their experiences of the process.
Picturing Mt Buffalo
Alice Manfield was a guide on Mt Buffalo from the 1890s to the 1930s. Penelope Johnson has told Alice's story in a haunting picture book.
Of Lakes & Writing
“All of writing is a huge lake.” (Jean Rhys in The Paris Review.) Ethel Florence Lindsay Richardson, better known by her pen name, Henry Handel Richardson, spent her childhood at Lake View House, overlooking Lake Anderson, in Chiltern.
Riparian 