Belonging
Writer Out of Residence: Archives
I’ve been researching, investigating and writing about belonging for several years. This blog is a collection of some of my thoughts, interviews and experiences.
Enjoy. Ponder. Be Inspired.
Alison Wearing : word musician, thought dancer, one-woman extravaganza
on the hidden delights of being an outsider, learning to disappear, and how searching for belonging from place can lead us astray When Alison grows...
Hilary Mantel on writing
Hilary Mantel on the controversy around her short story ''The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher'': ''But is it the job of the writer to primarily...
How to be more creative with help from neuroscience and Margaret Atwood
I’m back from a social media-free week and boy was it wonderful. It was both freeing and humbling. This from the person who didn’t have a TV for...
Michael Mohammed Ahmad: literacy warrior, change pacer, author
It’s a wet and rainy Friday in Sydney and I’m late for my meeting with the director of Sweatshop, a literacy movement homed at Western Sydney...
Let The Verandah ChiX fill your creative soul
Is your creative soul feeling a bit blah? Do you want a boost? What you need is an infusion of the Verandah ChiX. Blah is exactly how I’d been...
How to nourish your creative soul
One of the things I often wonder is whether writers and artists burn out faster than, say, an engineer or an accountant or other types of less arty...
Miss Kiki learns about love
It's my third term at Milpera, the state school for refugee and migrant children here in Brisbane, and things are always changing. Every term new...
Writer Adam Gopnik on ephemera
Catching ephemera. It's sounds magical, mystical, even playful. And it applies to belonging. To start unraveling the web of silken debris that forms...
Miss Kiki puts on her Wonder Woman outfit
Part of what I love about my weekly visits to the refugee and migrant children at Milpera State School is that I never know who will come to my...
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Kirsten Fogg
WRITER OUT OF RESIDENCE
