Okay, if anything goes wrong in moving house you can find me at @alisoncroggon
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Alison Croggon
@alisoncroggon
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I write words. Poet, novelist, critic, theatre writer. Arts and culture editor The Saturday Paper. She/her. Living on unceded Yalukit-Willam Country.
@callmesipo Thank you! The instance I'm eyeing is the one you've moved to in fact...
Giovanni TisoI work for this magazine that I love and today is the last day of our subscriberthon drive, with prizes to be won including regional ones for New Zealand. So I wrote a thing about why people should subscribe. https://overland.org.au/2022/11/on-the-last-day-of-subscriberthon-our-amazing-online-editor-gives-you-one-last-very-good-reason-to-subscribe/
@upulie Have you downloaded metatext? By far the most usable app I've found
@callmesipo Would be enough to put me off moving, in fact!!!
@callmesipo Oh that would be very yikes
I'm seriously thinking of moving to another instance so be prepared for a couple of days of me being confused....
@mclayfield There is tho, it's kind of nice
BLACK SPRING is my go at #Gothic - a rewrite of Wuthering Heights with added elements drawn from Ismael Kadare's Broken April and the rest - magic, really grim wizards, the horror of patriarchy - coming from me.
I wrote about the process of writing the book for Readings in 2012: https://www.readings.com.au/news/the-story-of-my-book-black-spring-by-alison-croggon
The cover below is for the Australian edition - it also came out in the US and UK with a slightly more romantic cover - and remains my favourite.
The Story of my Book: Black Spring by Alison Croggon
Alison Croggon talks about the process of writing her new Young Adult novel, It’s hard to know when a book begins. Perhaps Black Spring began when I was six years old and running over the bone-strewn turf of the Cornish moors with my sisters. I remember the boundless feeling of…
I'm going to attempt a regular #FridayBook post. Starting with old books of mine but also including books I'm reading. It's been ages since I did any sort of blogging...but microblogging might work?