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shannon fricke

Shannon Fricke was one of the many talented Australian women I featured on Design*Sponge during my guest blog stint, and I'm so happy that Murdoch Books have decided to repackage her excellent boo...

writer georgia blain

That's it. Next year I'm packing my bags and heading to Writers' Week at the Adelaide Festival. While I've enjoyed the talks at its Sydney counterpart for some time, I was jealous of those who were...

emma magenta...contd

Here's more about... Emma Magenta. Have you always been an illustrator? Was this the focus of your study at art school? I have always, since I was a child been utterly obsessed with the feeling th...

writer nikki gemmell

Success is a funny thing. Publication of The Bride Stripped Bare - with the teasing author note: anonymous - threw Nikki Gemmell onto the world publishing scene. As journalists hunted her down as ...

karin upton baker

Wonder woman - Karin Upton Baker. The style queen with Australian media personality Deborah Hutton. Because she turned Harper's Bazaar into a must-read magazine during her tenure as editor-in-chi...

ARTISTS GILLIE AND MARC SCHATTNER

Gillie and Marc Schattner are a husband and wife team who create artworks together, and have built up a body of work over the years that includes recognisable dog portraits and sculptures. While Gi...

writer martin hughes

James Braund, photographer of The Slow Guide Melbourne, says of this pic: "This was taken at Werribee Zoo. I like the negative space with the cloud and giraffes neck, it reminded me of a cartoon t...

taking it easy?

I'm off to Melbourne this weekend and going to try very, very hard to absorb rather than devour the city. In my bag, I'm taking The Slow Guide To Melbourne in the hope I'll be inspired to take it ...

margaret atwood

Because she's a brilliant writer.Because she's prolific and yet so diverse.Because she has written some brilliant books about the subject of writing such as Negotiating with the dead.Because she ma...

editor bianca tzatzagos

Bianca in Venice, one of her favourite cities. Her craft room - she's always got plenty of projects on the go. A selection of her favourite things hang on the walls.Me (on the left) and Bianca in ...