About news & events Upcoming events...Sticks & Stones is (finally!) released this month so lots of promotional stuff going on. Contact Pan Macmillan for any details.Brimbank Literary Festival short story competition - entries close 30th July 2010. Once again this year I will be acting as the short story judge for the adult, teenage and children’s categories. The award ceremony will be held at the Overnewton Castle in Keilor at 7.15pm on 24th September 2010. Contact Brimbank city council or the library service for details.Monday 4th October 2010 @ 12.00pm - lunchtime talk at Montrose Town Hall.Latest news...The Family Tree has been nominated for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Award - which, even if it doesn’t get any further than that, is a terrific honour! This year I will be doing some creative writing teaching at the short courses wing of Holmesglen TAFE in Moorabbin. I will be teaching ’Write Your Life Story’ (Thursday evenings) and also giving a few Saturday workshops (either at Moorabbin or Chadstone) on ’Turning Fact into Fiction’. If you’re interested simply contact short courses at Holmesglen TAFE for further details. Should be fun!Join me on my blog at http://themiddle-agedspread.blogspot.com - it’s all part of a journey towards my next book (tentatively titled The Invisible Woman, and other remarkable phenomena of middle-age), which will be a non-fiction exploration of middle-age for women (probably part of my own mid-life crisis). Fascinating stuff!And, if you’re somewhat middle-aged yourself, then please take the time to complete the survey (should only take five minutes). Feel free to send the link to your friends - the more the merrier!For anybody interested in the ongoing campaign to make Australian Family Law more protective of families at risk of violence and abuse (primarily by putting safety ahead of automatic shared care of children), there is a petition located at: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/family-court-of-australia-amendments.html I’m on Facebook now so feel free to say hi - but please don’t expect too much of my technological abilities! I’m still trying to get my head around wall-writing and friend requests and general poking... Shadow Forest Authors is an organisation aiming to "encourage every author worldwide and from every genre to donate just one copy of their title to fill a void in reading materials and get both paperback books and e-books where they are urgently needed. Authors and supporters standing together to make a difference, our humble shadows speaking volumes." Anybody can support this worthwhile organisation (and assist worldwide literacy). If you’re interested, simply click on the badge below.
To enquire about public speaking etc, just email me at ilsa@ilsaevans.com or contact Pan Macmillan Fees are as per the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) guidelines. For details, please visit their website at http://www.asauthors.org
