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Creatives, creatures & community

7/15/2022

 
by Lydia Roberts
A LOVE LETTER to arachnids is how Armidale creative James O'Hanlon describes his forthcoming book, I Love Spiders.

James won the 2021 Varuna/New England Writers’ Centre Fellowship for his manuscript, which takes an endearing and scientific look at his great passion, arachnids.

"I spent a lot of time hanging around arachnologists and realising how overwhelmingly fascinating spiders were," James says.  ​"I thought the rest of the world ought to know about this, so the idea for a popular science book was born."
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James O'Hanlon, winner of the 2021 Varuna-NEWC Fellowship

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Turning the page on editing

11/18/2021

 
By Lydia Roberts
SUCCESSFUL SEGUE: Editor Anna Thomson is also a published writer.
​EVER get stuck into a good story, only to find your mind drifting after a few chapters because you can’t understand the characters?

Armidale editor Anna Thomson found she couldn’t “fall into” the story with some works she edited, even though the plot was well written and constructed.

Her solution was to write her own novel and, thanks to the inaugural Varuna-New England Writers' Centre fellowship, she spent a week working on Bloodwood.
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“Having an entire week to work uninterrupted on the manuscript was just what I, and it, needed,” Thomson said.
Anna Thompson was the winner of the 2019 Inaugural Varuna-NEWC Fellowship
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