Writers Victoria CALD Mentorships 2013 mentee: Hoa Pham
“Meeting like minds” When I saw the CALD mentorships advertised at Writers Victoria I jumped at the chance to work with Maria Tumarkin whose work I admired. I did not have to think twice about why I...
View ArticleWriters Victoria CALD Mentorships 2013 mentee: Hariklia Heristanidis
We clatter on the keyboards quietly to ourselves or scribble silently in notebooks. Writing is a private affair, a solitary craft except for the few who are published and attract readership. I have...
View ArticleWriters Victoria CALD Mentorships 2013 mentee: Fatima Sehbai
“CALD, MT and kite flying” Have you heard of the reluctant fundamentalist? I’m a bit like that- not the fundamentalist part but. I had resisted all feelers, creative shenanigans and poetic stirrings....
View ArticleWriters Victoria CALD Mentorships 2013 mentee: Beverly Almeida
I almost didn’t submit an application for the Writers Victoria CALD Mentorship. After all I grew up in a household that spoke only English. True it was in a city in the Asian sub-continent, true it was...
View ArticleWriters Victoria CALD Mentorships 2013 mentee: Lian Low
When I saw applications for Writers Victoria’s CALD Mentorship program, I hesitated in applying, as the emphasis was on being from a non-English speaking background (NESB). I wasn’t sure if this was...
View ArticleWriters Victoria CALD Mentorships 2013 mentor: Maria Tumarkin
We have many writers in today’s Australia – they are almost an underclass – who cannot, or cannot be stuffed, answering concisely generic questions about home and identity, marked as they are by what...
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