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- [Soweto love](https://irmagold.com/soweto-love/) - I have recently returned from an incredible trip to South Africa with my brother. We spent most of our time in Soweto, in particular in the informal settlement of Kliptown. We were fortunate to work with Soweto Kliptown Youth (SKY), founded by Bob Nameng, which aims to address some of the community’s challenges. Kliptown is
- [](https://irmagold.com/shift/) - SHIFT Listen to Irma interviewed by Katherine Collette at Readings, Carlton for her Melbourne launch. https://irmagold.com/wp-content/uploads/2000/05/Readings-Podcast-Irma-Gold.mp3 Listen to Irma interviewed by Madeleine Cleary on The Book Deal podcast. They cover Irma’s whole career as an author, editor and podcaster, and talk about her latest novel, Shift. Arlie is a moderately successful thirty-something photographer who can’t
- [](https://irmagold.com/the-breaking/) - THE BREAKING Download The Breaking Book Club Conversation Starters Listen to Irma on ABC South East, interviewed by Paul West. They talk about making the cross from short fiction to writing novels, how working as an editor impacts the writing process, where the seed for the novel The Breaking came from, the research process in
- [](https://irmagold.com/where-the-heart-is/) - WHERE THE HEART IS Buy the English edition. Buy the Spanish edition. Buy the Chinese edition. Buy the Polish edition. Get the teachers’ notes. Watch Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York read Where the Heart Is. Listen to a review of Where the Heart Is on the popular Your Kid’s Next Read podcast (starts at 14:55),
- [](https://irmagold.com/serees-story/) - SEREE'S STORY Buy Seree’s Story. Get the teachers’ notes. Listen to Irma talk about Seree’s Story on ep 73 of the One More Page podcast, starting at 3.05. Shortlisted, then Highly Commended, ACT Notable Awards for Children’s Fiction Seree loves nothing more than eating sweet mushy bananas, rolling in squelchy mud and playing with her
- [It's a collaboration](https://irmagold.com/its-a-collaboration/) - Last weekend I presented at SCWBI’s Level Up conference on the collaborative process of editing a manuscript, and how the author–editor relationship should ideally work. I thought it might be useful to share an abbreviated version of the section on how to get the most out of the experience, because if you’ve never worked with
- [The one writing ritual you can’t give up](https://irmagold.com/the-one-writing-ritual-you-cant-give-up/) - Most authors have writing rituals, ranging from the pragmatic to the bizarre. Hemingway famously wrote standing up, and Edith Wharton lying in bed. John Cheever wrote in his underwear but Victor Hugo went one step further and wrote nude. Truman Capote avoided Fridays, never beginning or ending a piece of writing on that day. Poet
- [Guest post: HARDCOPY pearls](https://irmagold.com/guest-post-hardcopy-pearls/) - In order to make a living most writers take on a range of different work, and Nigel Featherstone may have one of the best jobs in the biz. Managing the HARDCOPY program, he works with emerging writers and industry professionals — agents, publishers, editors — from around the country. Having been involved in a very
- [Grant writing tips: how to win gold](https://irmagold.com/grant-writing-tips-how-to-win-gold/) - Every writer toiling away in their garret could use a small pot of gold, right? Grants come in a variety of shapes and sizes and can further your creative practice in so many ways. I’ve received grants to attend professional development opportunities, to travel overseas to undertake research for a book, to provide a living
- [Flashers (of the literary kind) unite](https://irmagold.com/flashers-of-the-literary-kind-unite/) - The inaugural Flash Fiction Festival, dedicated to the shortest of literary forms, kicked off in Canberra recently. One of the nicest things about festivals is hanging out with other writers, and there was plenty of that. But there was also ‘work’ to be done. I ran an editing workshop, and spoke on what was possibly
- [Guest post: Under the bed](https://irmagold.com/guest-post-under-the-bed/) - Every writer’s path to publication is different, and most writers have at least one novel that for one reason or another didn’t quite make it. Robert Lukins has 24 of them, but none of them were ever intended for publication. In this guest post, Robert reflects on how and why he wrote a book a
- [Literary adventures](https://irmagold.com/literary-adventures/) - This month I thought I’d bring you a newsy post about my latest literary adventures. First up, I had the absolute pleasure of chatting with two brilliant writers, Kate Mildenhall and Katherine Collette, for their new podcast, The First Time, which is launching in August. Katherine has recently signed her novel, The Helpline, and the
- [How I got an agent](https://irmagold.com/how-i-got-an-agent/) - In a nutshell, this is how I got my agent. I emailed Debbie Golvan a query letter, got up and made a cup of tea, came back to my laptop and there, in my inbox, was a response. The best kind, requesting that I send through the first three chapters. Seven minutes it took her
- [Canberra Writers Festival](https://irmagold.com/canberra-writers-festival/) - The third Canberra Writers Festival has just wrapped, and this year I found more to love on the program than in previous years. In fact I wish I’d been able to split myself in two for several timeslots. If you’re after rundowns on lots of the sessions, head over to the Whispering Gums blog, but
- [Knock outs: on writing rejection and success](https://irmagold.com/knock-outs-on-writing-rejection-and-success/) - Wanting to be a writer and not wanting to be rejected is like wanting to be a boxer and not wanting to get punched. David Barr Kirtley speaks the truth. Successful writers are those who have been knocked out and got back up, over and over again. In spite of that, writers are notorious for
- [Judging a book by its cover](https://irmagold.com/judging-a-book-by-its-cover/) - Let’s face it. No matter what anyone says, we do judge a book by its cover. Which is why the designer’s job is so important. As an editor I’ve been fortunate to work with some incredible book designers, and one of the very best is Sandy Cull. So often when I pick up a book
- [Oh the places you'll go!](https://irmagold.com/oh-the-places-youll-go/) - 2017 is the thirteenth year of the ACT Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge, but it’s been anything but unlucky. This year saw more students than ever before take part, with 34,000 kids from 91 schools reading their 15 books. Twenty-six schools finished with a 100 per cent completion rate across the school — bravo! And 49
- [Public reading: More please!](https://irmagold.com/public-reading-more-please/) - Since phones have taken over it seems to me that people are reading less in public spaces. My children and I flout this at every opportunity. On a trip to the shops all three of them can often be seen trailing behind me, book in hand. (No one has met with calamity yet.) If I
- [Canberra Writers Festival 2019](https://irmagold.com/canberra-writers-festival-2019/) - It’s festival season again and I chaired the first panel of the Canberra Writers Festival weekend. It sold out all 200 seats within two days of going on sale! How great is that?! It was the largest panel that I’ve ever chaired, with six writers: Paul Daley, Marion Halligan, Tracey Hawkins, MP Andrew Leigh, Nicole
- [Four launches and a festival…](https://irmagold.com/four-launches-and-a-festival/) - …is much more fun than four weddings and a funeral. The festival was the annual Flash Fiction Weekend, aimed at writers wanting to develop and hone their craft, held in the beautiful East Hotel. I had the pleasure of convening a panel on the writing process with superstars Graeme Simsion, Karen Viggers, Jack Heath and
- [Taking licks: On writing rejection and success](https://irmagold.com/writing-rejection-and-success-2/) - Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil — but there is no way around them. Isaac Asimov It’s an inescapable fact that the writing life is bound up with rejection. Successful authors are those able to survive the lacerations. So in this
- [Literary adventures abroad](https://irmagold.com/literary-adventures-abroad/) - As my novel set in Thailand is currently out with publishers, I wait. It is, in short, excruciating. In the meantime I am working on a new novel, which is the best antidote, and of course continuing with my usual editing work on other writers’ books. But still I can’t help my thoughts returning to
- [Contracts, contracts, contracts!](https://irmagold.com/contracts-contracts-contracts/) - Okay, there are actually only two new contracts but the rule of threes works better and, besides, excitement levels require it. Rejection is part of a writer’s staple diet, so when you have two big wins in the space of a week it’s time to splash champagne around like a rock star and happy dance
- [Literary adventures — around Canberra and on to Iceland](https://irmagold.com/literary-adventures-around-canberra-and-on-to-iceland/) - Is anyone else hanging for the end of the year? I’m so madly busy right now and the pace isn’t going to let up until Christmas Day. It helps that I’m editing some incredible books which I’m so excited to see in print, but I’m also hanging out for the Christmas break when I can
- [Behind the story](https://irmagold.com/behind-the-story/) - Meanjin has just published a memoir piece that I wrote about my son, and it is the rawest and most personal piece of writing that I have ever published. ‘Untethered’ tells the story of how my 10 year old was discovered, by accident, to have an extremely rare and fatal asymptomatic congenital heart condition. So
- [The dance between character and place in fiction](https://irmagold.com/character-and-place-in-fiction/) - Place is so important in fiction writing. It is more than just setting, more than just a space that characters inhabit. The way each of us views a place is different, filtered through our subjective experiences. And the way characters interact with the space around them can reveal so much about their interior lives. So,
- [Picture book illustration: Dub Leffler](https://irmagold.com/picture-book-illustration-dub-leffler/) - If you’ve ever wondered what goes into the illustration process of a picture book, this is the post for you. Illustrator Dub Leffler is a descendant of the Bigambul people of South West Queensland and one of Australia’s most sought after children’s book illustrators. He has created 23 books and I’ve been fortunate enough to
- [Dream realised: on being a debut author](https://irmagold.com/being-a-debut-author/) - Releasing a book into the world is both terrifying and exhilarating, even more so when it’s your debut. It’s a precarious business being a writer. As John Steinbeck once said: The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. For debut writers, entering into the world of publishing for the first
- [Editing process rundown](https://irmagold.com/editing-process-rundown/) - Given that I’ve worked as an editor for 21 years it seems crazy that I’ve never written a post that breaks down the different kinds of editing, but I’m about to remedy that! Most of the books that I edit are for publishers, but about a quarter of my work is directly for authors who
- [On zooming: disconnected connection](https://irmagold.com/on-zooming-disconnected-connection/) - In the crazy COVID land of 2020, Zoom has emerged as king. I now have online editorial meetings with publishers and authors, and attend book launches, book clubs, writerly drinks, literary festivals and events, all via Zoom. In some ways it’s connected me with the literary community more than ever before, allowing me to flit
- [Launching in the time of COVID](https://irmagold.com/launching-in-the-time-of-covid/) - Launching a book into the world can be a strange and surreal experience at the best of times, but launching a book into a pandemic just got a whole lot stranger. Authors have been forced to adjust to new technologies and ways of engaging with readers, and reconcile themselves to the fact that events are
- [Secrets from the Green Room](https://irmagold.com/secrets-from-the-green-room/) - Mega exciting news! This year I’ve been busily planning a new writing podcast with my co-host Craig Cormick, called Secrets from the Green Room. Craig and I have known each other for more than 20 years. I first met him in my second year studying creative writing when he happened to be my tutor, and
- [The debut release storm](https://irmagold.com/debut-release/) - I have started trying to write this post so many times but pre-publicity for The Breaking has me feeling like I’m in the middle of a storm. I had the best of intentions. Over the Christmas holiday period I knew I would have a couple of manuscripts to edit but that there would be plenty
- [Behind the book tour](https://irmagold.com/book-tour/) - My debut novel, The Breaking, has now been out in the world for five weeks. That sounds like such a long time but it has zipped by in an absolute blur. I’m aware that the crucial first six weeks of a book’s life are almost over, and yet I feel like I haven’t had time
- [Where the Heart Is backstory](https://irmagold.com/where-the-heart-is-backstory/) - Some time ago now (I’m a bit hazy on the details) I read a newspaper article about a man named Joao who rescued a penguin, who he named Dindim, from an oil spill. The chick washed up on an island village beach just outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, near Joao’s shanty home. They developed such
- [Fergie reads my book!](https://irmagold.com/fergie-reads-my-book/) - What a few weeks it has been! My latest picture book, Where the Heart Is, illustrated by Susannah Crispe, came out last month and I had no idea that it would result in possibly the greatest moment of my life. None other than the Fergie, Duchess of York, selected our humble little book to read
- [Zooming through lockdown](https://irmagold.com/zooming-through-lockdown/) - Like half the country, the ACT is back in lockdown and this means that a bunch of my IRL bookish happenings shifted to Zoom. But one that was always intended for Zoom was F*CK COVID: An Online Literary Affair, organised by the dynamic team at the ACT Writers Centre. When the event was first proposed
- [Events are back, baby!](https://irmagold.com/events-are-back-baby/) - Yeeeeeees! How great is it that we’re getting out and about again — seeing our fellow literary peeps and drinking champagne and talking books. Oh, how I have missed it. If you’re in need of a good literary dose, I’ve got events coming up for both adults and kids. I’ll be talking ‘Adulting and Other
- [All the happenings](https://irmagold.com/all-the-happenings/) - It almost feels like we’re back to normal with events again, and it was so lovely to recently head over to gorgeous Western Australia for the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival. I took a week beforehand to travel the coast from Bremer Bay to Margaret River and, my goodness, it is stunning! I knew
- [ACT Notable Awards](https://irmagold.com/act-notable-awards/) - It was a glorious night at the ACT Notable Awards! In typical fashion I managed to go to the wrong venue (in my defence I went to where the gallery used to be for about 20 years, not realising it had moved) and arrived very late. Unfashionably so, one might say, given that the ceremony
- [Festival bliss](https://irmagold.com/festival-bliss/) - I bloody love festivals. Spending time with other writers – chatting with them onstage and off – is such a buzz. I always come away invigorated and buoyed up. I’m with my people – those who understand all the craziness of the publishing industry – and it is pure bliss. So I was absolutely delighted
- [Festivaling](https://irmagold.com/festivaling/) - My last post started with ‘I bloody love festivals’, and this one could start the same way. I really do. And I was recently at the wonderful Write Around the Murray, which I had long heard such good things about from author friends. They were absolutely right, it’s a cracker. The venues are gorgeous, the
- [](https://irmagold.com/the-invisible-thread/) - THE INVISIBLE THREAD Winner, Canberra Critics Circle Award for Literature, 2013 Winner, special one-off award at the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards for ‘Outstanding Service to Writing and Publishing in the ACT and Region’, 2013 Official publication of the National Year of Reading 2012 Official publication of the Centenary of Canberra 2013 Featuring Judith Wright
- [](https://irmagold.com/the-sound-of-silence/) - THE SOUND OF SILENCE Winner, ACT Writing and Publishing Awards for Nonfiction, 2012 Winner, Canberra Critics Circle Award for Literature, 2011 Miscarriage is so common and yet it is an unspeakable subject. Women often grieve alone, mourning a child they have never met but whose future they have already imagined. It is a private, hidden
- [](https://irmagold.com/two-steps-forward/) - TWO STEPS FORWARD Winner, Canberra Critics Circle Award for Literature, 2011 Shortlisted, Most Underrated Book Award, 2012 Shortlisted, ACT Writing and Publishing Awards for Fiction, 2012 It’s easy to get stuck in a rut. What binds the characters in Two Steps Forward is an indomitable desire to climb their way out. Located in familiar Australian
- [](https://irmagold.com/megumi-and-the-bear-2/) - MEGUMI AND THE BEAR Megumi has only one wish. For the bear to come back. Published by Walker Books, Megumi and the Bear is a heartwarming story about friendship. Written by Irma Gold and illustrated by Craig Phillips, Megumi and the Bear is for children aged 3+. For more information visit Walker Books. Praise for
- [Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!](https://irmagold.com/aussie-aussie-aussie/) - ‘If you’re writing a book in Australia then you need to buy books by Australian authors from Australian bookshops. I’m really hardline on this.’ So said Deb Stevens, Allen & Unwin sales rep and literary dynamo, on a panel about bookselling, ‘The Bookshop Coalface’, at Hardcopy.* I couldn’t agree more. The majority of readers are
- [WHAT I WISH I KNEW BEFORE I WAS PUBLISHED](https://irmagold.com/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-i-was-published/) - I was recently part of a panel on this topic with Omar Musa, Lucy Neave and Nigel Featherstone (Chair) for HARDCOPY. We had a wide-ranging and thoroughly enjoyable discussion and I thought it might be useful to pick up and elaborate on a few of the points discussed. 1. Your heart is published along with
- [Evolution of a story](https://irmagold.com/evolution-of-a-story/) - In 2016, at the end of a solo three-week trip through Thailand, I was sitting on this bench at Kanchanaburi station when I began scrawling down a story in my notebook. Writers are always asked where their ideas come from and it’s the most difficult question to answer because, for me at least, they have
- [A WINNING THREAD](https://irmagold.com/a-winning-thread/) - Twenty-three has always been my favourite number. I was born on the 23rd. In my 23rd year I graduated from university into this writing and editing life. And last night at the 23rd annual Canberra Critics Circle Awards I picked up an award for The Invisible Thread. Earlier that day I had been preparing documentation
- [SOMETHING SPECIAL](https://irmagold.com/something-special/) - Some days everything falls in a heap, and that’s what happened to me yesterday. Plans went awry and I scrambled to get to the announcement of the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards. I arrived as they were announcing the last award. Massive fail. Most particularly because they had created a special award just for me.
- [LITERATURE & LURVE](https://irmagold.com/literature-lurve/) - Today I had a little chat with Michael Cathcart on Radio National’s Books and Arts Daily about Australian Love Stories, in which I have a story called ‘The Little Things’. I was joined by Cate Kennedy, the anthology’s editor and one of Australia’s finest short story writers herself, and fellow author Lisa Jacobson who also
- [The Invisible Thread series: Bill Gammage](https://irmagold.com/the-invisible-thread-series-bill-gammage/) - The Invisible Thread, an anthology of 100 years of writing from the Canberra region, will hit bookshop shelves on 22 October. In the meantime I’ve been very busy working with a filmmaker on a series of interviews with the authors. Today the very first of them has been launched. Chatting with Bill Gammage, one of
- [The Invisible Thread series: Omar Musa](https://irmagold.com/the-invisible-thread-series-omar-musa/) - Chatting with poet, rapper and Invisible Thread author Omar Musa was ridiculously enjoyable. Omar is passionate, sometimes controversial, and always candid. During the interview he had his say on everything from artists leaving Canberra and then disowning their hometown to why (and how) he wants to dispel the myth that poetry is boring and irrelevant.
- [The Invisible Thread series: Roger McDonald](https://irmagold.com/the-invisible-thread-series-roger-mcdonald/) - On a searing blue-sky day my cameraman, Dylan, picks me up and we road trip to Roger McDonald’s home, just outside Braidwood. When we hit dirt roads we follow Roger’s concise instructions with landmarks that include sulky wheels and stock ramps. The landscape is like something out of a novel, a Roger McDonald novel perhaps.
- [The Invisible Thread series: Adrian Caesar](https://irmagold.com/the-invisible-thread-series-adrian-caesar/) - Adrian Caesar is a poet and prose writer as well as a fellow hand waver (here we are in action). During our interview Adrian said a great many things that struck me. For instance: ‘The great thing to me about poems is that you can, in a sense, write them in the margins of your
- [The Invisible Thread series: Peter Stanley](https://irmagold.com/the-invisible-thread-series-peter-stanley/) - One of the wonderful things about editing The Invisible Thread was discovering writers that I had previously wanted to read but had somehow never got around to. Like historian Peter Stanley. Indeed, reading for this anthology made plain what an incredible bunch of historians Canberra has nurtured. Bill Gammage, Charles Bean, Ken Inglis, Manning Clark,
- [The Invisible Thread series: Marion Halligan](https://irmagold.com/the-invisible-thread-series-marion-halligan/) - Somehow Marion Halligan’s home is exactly as I imagine a writer’s should be. Books everywhere, the right kind of clutter, a garden full of gorgeous sprawl. I first visited her there a couple of years ago. My then four year old bought with him a copy of Toy Story, an appallingly written transcript (this happened
- [An Invisible Thread kind of summer](https://irmagold.com/an-invisible-thread-kind-of-summer/) - A quick note to let you know (if you don’t already) that The Canberra Times is running a series of extracts from The Invisible Thread over summer. Pick up today’s paper and you’ll find an extract from Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career, first published back in 1902. And if you missed previous extracts you can
- [The Invisible Thread series: Steve Kelen](https://irmagold.com/the-invisible-thread-series-sk-kelen-2/) - This week I’ve disappeared into the world of my much-neglected novel. I’ve been tightening, ruthlessly cutting, and thoroughly enjoying myself. But I’m emerging briefly to draw your attention to the next (and second to last) video interview with Invisible Thread poet SK Kelen. As you can probably tell, I had a good time chatting with
- [Blizzards, baths and the bush: Where writers write (part 2)](https://irmagold.com/blizzards-baths-and-the-bush-where-writers-write-part-2/) - My recent post on ‘Where writers write’ revealed all sorts of weird and wonderful places writers have found themselves putting pen to paper. And interestingly, as Sue Terry of Whispering Gums pointed out, when inspiration strikes most writers still seem to favour the pen over any kind of digital device, even in places where paper is a hindrance. In the bath, for example. In
- [The post-launch blues](https://irmagold.com/the-post-launch-blues/) - It’s taken me a while to write about The Invisible Thread launch (others have already beaten me to it here and here). Why, you might ask? Well, launches are funny things. You build towards them — in this case for three years — with great anticipation. The event itself zips by, a blur of faces
- [TREES, TRAINS & HOSPITAL TROLLEYS: WHERE WRITERS WRITE (PART 1)](https://irmagold.com/trees-trains-hospital-trolleys-where-writers-write-part-1/) - Writers write in weird places.* I do all the standard things: scrawl notes in the middle of the night, while I’m out walking, when driving in the car (I pull over, of course, often bunny-hopping to my destination). I’m forever using the back of receipts or whatever I can lay my hands on (I’ve always
- [Megumi and the Bear Sydney launch](https://irmagold.com/megumi-and-the-bear-sydney-launch/) - On a foggy Saturday morning with Canberra due to reach just eight degrees we packed our kids into the car and headed for Sydney and its positively balmy 21 degrees. Some three hours later we rolled into the CBD. My bloke managed to drive up a bus-only road but then scored a street-side park just
- [The Invisible Thread series: Dorothy Johnston](https://irmagold.com/the-invisible-thread-series-dorothy-johnson/) - We’ve finally reached the end of our video interview series but we’re going out with a bang. When I spoke to Dorothy Johnston on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin she was feisty, outspoken and honest. We talked about everything from the importance of having the ‘right’ length of jeans and going to the ‘right’
- [Delivery day](https://irmagold.com/delivery-day/) - If this arrived on your doorstep would you feel terrified? Because I did. Terrified and excited all at once. Why? Because I knew what was inside that little parcel sitting innocuously on my doorstep. Advance copies of The Invisible Thread. Inside I place the parcel carefully on the dining room table. I pick up the
- [The Invisible Thread series: Jackie French](https://irmagold.com/the-invisible-thread-series-jackie-french/) - I meet Jackie French at Floriade on Gnome Hill, a grassy area peppered with a collection of porcelain gnomes. We walk across to a quieter spot beside a stream. She has come from giving a ‘Gourmet Garden’ presentation where she has managed to splatter herself with soup. ‘I never wear an apron at home,’ she
- [Filming (mis)adventures](https://irmagold.com/filming-misadventures/) - Before The Invisible Thread series I had never interviewed anyone on camera. I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing hundreds of interesting people for print but my voice, my words have only ever appeared on the page, and my image has remained hidden. Seeing yourself played back is an excruciating experience (how do actors cope with
- [Spitting out poems: an interview with Geoff Page](https://irmagold.com/spitting-out-poems-an-interview-with-geoff-page/) - Geoff Page is one of Canberra’s best known and most loved poets. He’s lived in this part of the world for almost 50 years which means he’s got a story or two to tell about the region’s literary goings-on. He is one of 75 writers included in an anthology that I recently edited, The Invisible
- [Parang](https://irmagold.com/parang/) - A quick heads up to let you know that next Wednesday I’ll be launching poet and rapper Omar Musa’s latest collection, Parang. I first saw Omar perform some years ago at a poetry slam evening at the Front. I’d been hearing about how good he was for some time, and I’d read a few of
- [Espresso and white noise: on writing in cafés](https://irmagold.com/espresso-and-white-noise-on-writing-in-cafes/) - Apparently people who take their laptops to cafés and write are pretentious. On his blog John Scalzi writes: ‘I mean, Christ, people. All that tapping and leaning back thoughtfully in your chair with a mug of whatever while you pretend to edit your latest masterpiece. You couldn’t be more obvious if you had a garish,
- [All About Ava: An Interview with Sara Dowse](https://irmagold.com/all-about-ava-an-interview-with-sara-dowse/) - Sara Dowse grew up in Hollywood and at the age of seven spent the weekend with a 22-year-old Ava Gardner. At the time Ava was considered to be one of the most beautiful women in the world, and Sara’s encounter with her was profound, though perhaps not in the way you might imagine. Sara wrote
- [These boots were made for walking: writing rituals](https://irmagold.com/these-boots-were-made-for-walking-writing-rituals/) - I have very few writing rituals, things that I actually need in order to write. Having children has focused me in a way nothing else ever could because until this year I wrote in the cracks of life. I grabbed an hour while the littlest slept and the two older children were at school, or
- [Audiobooks: why they matter and why authors should care](https://irmagold.com/audiobooks-why-they-matter-and-why-authors-should-care/) - The companionship and delight of a voice telling stories is incomparable. Stephen Fry I’m not usually a consumer of audiobooks, but circumstance has recently led me to a couple of excellent audiobooks, and it’s got me thinking about the medium. My children have long been fans, partly, I suspect, because we have a No-TV-after-school rule.
- [Go ahead, make my day: supporting Australian authors](https://irmagold.com/go-ahead-make-my-day-supporting-australian-authors/) - Here’s a stat for you. On average Australian authors make just $12,900 a year. That figure is usually made up of a bunch of different income streams that might include teaching writing, festival appearances, PLR/ELR (if you don’t know what this is, read on), school visits, and a range of other writing-related activities. Book royalties
- [The story behind the story](https://irmagold.com/the-story-behind-the-story/) - Riding the publicity trail for a book can be surreal and lovely or exhausting and tedious. Sometimes it’s all of those things at once. It’s a strange experience to talk endlessly about the story behind your book, but fascinating to hear readers’ perceptions of the work. Many reviewers, for instance, have noted that Megumi and
- [The short of it](https://irmagold.com/the-short-of-it/) - With the release of my debut collection of fiction I’ve been talking about the short story a lot and it’s got me thinking. To my mind the short story is undervalued. There are a plethora of short fiction competitions and a handful of literary magazines that will publish them, but a collection in book form?
- [This writing life](https://irmagold.com/this-writing-life/) - I have recently returned from a blissful week at Varuna Writers’ Centre. For the uninitiated Varuna is writers’ heaven. Housed in author Eleanor Dark’s former Blue Mountains residency, it is the only place of its kind in Australia where writers can stay and focus solely on writing. With four other writers living in the house,
- [Almost (not) famous](https://irmagold.com/almost-not-famous/) - Here are ten reasons why you shouldn’t despair if you have an unpublished manuscript. These famous rejections are sure to cheer you up: 1. Can you imagine a world without Possum Magic? Apparently many publishers could. Mem Fox’s classic was rejected nine times over five years. Little Hush would have remained invisible were it not
- [Beneath the surface](https://irmagold.com/beneath-the-surface/) - There is a myth that nothing happens in Canberra and, I must confess, sixteen years ago when I arrived here I credited that myth. My first memory is of driving along Northbourne Ave, past Civic. ‘That’s the city,’ my brother thumbed. I looked out of the window and experienced mild panic. Where? I thought. I
- [UP FOR AN AWARD](https://irmagold.com/up-for-an-award/) - A lovely bit of news. The Sound of Silence has been shortlisted for the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards (Nonfiction). A big thank you to the 22 women who so bravely shared their stories of miscarriage and prevailed with me through the lengthy editing process. It seems it was all worth it. Given that miscarriage
- [All about the process](https://irmagold.com/all-about-the-process/) - There’s something deeply thrilling about being on a film set. Perhaps it’s because I’m a writer and used to solitary work, but being in the midst of a collaborative creative process, watching something take shape before you, is fascinating. Even more so, when the work in question is a trailer for a book you just
- [Woven Words](https://irmagold.com/woven-words/) - Whenever people talk to me about Woven Words the word ‘magic’ seems to crop up (read a review here). And I can’t help but agree that it was indeed a night on which magic happened. You never quite know how an event is going to unfold. Woven Words was, in some ways, a grand experiment.
- [Can creative writing be taught?](https://irmagold.com/can-creative-writing-be-taught/) - This year I’m producing a series of six podcasts for the fabulous literary journal Kill Your Darlings. My first podcast tackles a curly and divisive question, and I sat down with three authors — Andrew Croome, Francesca Rendle-Short and Jack Heath — to find out their views. Andrew and Francesca have both written novels through university
- [Megumi and the Bear's big day](https://irmagold.com/megumi-and-the-bears-big-day/) - Organising a kids’ book launch is THE best fun. It’s one step up from a kids’ birthday party and it’s no secret among my friends that I enjoy planning my children’s parties as much as they do. So organising Megumi and the Bear’s big day has been a blast. Naturally I was hoping for a
- [Megumi and the Bear launch prep](https://irmagold.com/megumi-and-the-bear-launch-prep/) - Tomorrow is another big day for Megumi and the Bear as launch number two hits Sydney town. We’ve got lots of good stuff planned. Fifty teddy bears to give away for starters (thanks to The Art of Teddy Bears) along with this pile of goodie bags. Kids will get to make their own bear mask
- [Forest for the Trees](https://irmagold.com/forest-for-the-trees/) - Yesterday I got up before the sun and jumped on a bus to Sydney, headed for the Sydney Writers Festival’s one-day publishing forum, Forest for the Trees. The bus originally seemed like a good idea, preferable to navigating peak-hour traffic myself, but after being trapped beside a man who was attempting to cough his lungs
- [ADELAIDE WRITERS' WEEK, PART 2](https://irmagold.com/adelaide-writers-week-part-2/) - Festivals always afford writers the chance to talk shop, and Adelaide Writers’ Week was no different. There were so many wonderful conversations — both on and off the stage — about this industry that we’re all part of in one way or another. On stage, the combination of English writers Margaret Drabble and Helen Dunmore
- [TREASURES AT THE CBCA CONFERENCE](https://irmagold.com/treasures-at-the-cbca-conference/) - Last weekend at the CBCA Conference was one of the most wonderful experiences I have had yet as a writer. I met old friends and new, had wonderful conversations with intelligent, creative people, ate dinner in the War Memorial under the fighter planes, met so many inspiring teacher librarians passionate about reading, drank lots of
- [A good year](https://irmagold.com/a-good-year/) - Last Thursday the annual ACT Writing and Publishing Awards were held in the Mercure Hotel and I had two books shortlisted in two categories. The Sound of Silence for Nonfiction and Two Steps Forward for Fiction. Pretty nice, huh? First up was the announcement of the Nonfiction Award. An anthology about miscarriage seemed an unlikely
- [Welcome to my new website!](https://irmagold.com/welcome-to-my-new-website/) - The digital gods have not been kind to me in recent weeks. Just as I was about to launch this beautiful new site my computer decided it was time to commit suicide. That was just one hurdle of many, but here we are — finally — after months of dreaming and planning and designing. Hurrah!
- [ADELAIDE WRITERS' WEEK, PART 1](https://irmagold.com/adelaide-writers-week-part-1/) - I have always considered Adelaide Writers’ Week to be the Mecca of Australian literary festivals, and last week I made the pilgrimage for the first time. It didn’t disappoint. Set in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Gardens under marquees and shade sails, the outdoor setting lends the event a relaxed, convivial feel. Combined with perfect summer
- [ADELAIDE WRITERS' WEEK, PART 3](https://irmagold.com/adelaide-writers-week-part-3/) - Yes, I’m still talking about Adelaide Writers’ Week! It was my first time there and I couldn’t possibly cram everything into one, or even two, posts. And I do want to talk about Richard Flanagan. I was ambivalent about attending his session. I have read and liked Flanagan’s work before but I had little interest
- [MOTHERHOOD AND MAYHEM: CBCA CONFERENCE 2014](https://irmagold.com/motherhood-and-mayhem-cbca-conference-2014/) - I was thrilled to be invited to talk on a panel of local authors — billed as ‘local treasures’ no less — at the National Conference of the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Motherhood and Mayhem was our topic — with three kids aged three to almost 11 could there be any literary panel more
- [THE GOOD STUFF](https://irmagold.com/the-good-stuff/) - Working in publishing is full of ups and downs, and it can be easy to dwell on the ‘downs’, allowing them to taint, or even eclipse, the ‘ups’. So in the spirit of celebrating all the good stuff, I thought I’d put together a newsy post about the ups of the last couple of months.
- [The real value of books](https://irmagold.com/the-real-value-of-books/) - Unless you’ve been in seclusion for the last week you’ll have heard that just ten days into office Queensland’s new Premier, Campbell Newman, scrapped the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. Since then I’ve read countless articles by authors and members of the arts community condemning the move and being forced to justify their own worth. Let’s
- [The art of book trailers](https://irmagold.com/the-art-of-book-trailers/) - I love a good book trailer, but I must admit that when I was first introduced to the idea I found the whole concept a little odd. A movie trailer draws on ready-made material but a book trailer has to create something from scratch, converting written words into visual images. Although book trailers have been
- [Today is the day](https://irmagold.com/today-is-the-day/) - Today is Red Nose Day, a day to raise funds to help to save the lives of babies and support bereaved families of miscarriage, neonatal and infant death. So it seems like an appropriate moment to reflect on how The Sound of Silence, a collection of women’s stories about miscarriage, has been received. It was
- [Spark and grit: an interview with Susan Hampton](https://irmagold.com/spark-and-grit-an-interview-with-susan-hampton/) - Sixteen years ago, in my first year living in Canberra, writer and editor Susan Hampton made a lasting impact on me. She was my tutor in first year creative writing, and she was fierce and brilliant. She seemed able to reference or quote from every book ever published. She never gave false praise; her honesty
- [The rush: an advance copy arrives](https://irmagold.com/the-rush-advance-copies-arrive/) - Last night I did a happy dance. On the spot, feet drumming the floor, a yowl of joy wanting out. And this is why. A package arrived. A big brown package with a Walker Books sticker on it. I sat on the couch with my two older kids. I felt giddy with anticipation. I pulled
- [Sing, and Don’t Cry](https://irmagold.com/sing-and-dont-cry/) - In the middle of the Serengeti the scrubby land is flat, stretching into the unbroken distance on all sides. We set up camp — a motley group of Americans, Germans, Brits and Aussies — and begin preparing the evening meal. The area is seemingly uninhabited, but suddenly children are emerging from everywhere. We peel vegetables,
- [Taking stories into schools](https://irmagold.com/taking-stories-into-schools/) - I’ve just wrapped up three days packed with school visits for Megumi and the Bear. It has been exhausting but exhilarating. There’s nothing quite like reading to a roomful of kids so involved in the story their mouths are hanging open. Or hearing that your visit has left them so inspired they all started writing
- [THE SHADOW PARTS](https://irmagold.com/the-shadow-parts/) - As today is International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day it seems appropriate to repost this interview Rhiza Press did with me about The Sound of Silence and my experience of editing the anthology. The Sound of Silence is an anthology of 22 women’s stories of miscarriage. Described by Parenting Express as an ‘achingly beautiful
- [Reading memories](https://irmagold.com/reading-memories/) - One of the perks of being Ambassador for the ACT Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge is visiting schools to talk about my favourite topic—books (duh). This week I headed to Holy Trinity Primary to meet the Year 1s and 2s. Here we all are getting a bit crazy together. Talking about reading got me thinking about
- [Take four](https://irmagold.com/take-four/) - ‘I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.’ Audre Lorde This is what we writers do, in our private corners of solitude. We put words on the page that go
- [Whatevs: on writing rejection](https://irmagold.com/whatevs-on-writing-rejection/) - A ‘failed’ novelist went viral recently when she wrote about giving up writing after her two literary fiction manuscripts were rejected one after the other. The comments make for interesting reading and broadly fall into two camps. The first is advice to self-publish, which I disagree with. (Hold the hate mail and let me explain.)
- [](https://irmagold.com/bugs-and-beasts-series/) - BUGS AND BEASTS SERIES Count from 1 to 10 with fantastical creatures and brightly coloured bugs and beetles in this counting book with rhyming text. See bunyips having muddy fun, lions lazing in the sun, snakes slithering on the ground and sea monsters swimming round and round! On each page you will find a fact
- [books and bears](https://irmagold.com/books-and-bears/) - The Megumi and the Bear Canberra launch is just eight sleeps away and I’m starting to feel that inevitable mixture of nervous excitement. Planning a kids book launch is like planning a kids party—there’s an awful lot to do—but it’s wicked fun. Take last night when Meg from The Teddy Bear Shop dropped off this
- [MAD, LOVELY VISITORS: NEW SHORT FICTION](https://irmagold.com/mad-lovely-visitors-new-short-fiction/) - In the last couple of years I haven’t had much time for writing short fiction. I’ve been focussing on other writing projects and short stories have mostly been sidelined. As Lorrie Moore says, ‘a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend’, and I’ve missed that. But
- [words and wanderlust](https://irmagold.com/words-and-wanderlust/) - I have a small problem. I am a travel junkie and a voracious reader. Combine the two and the result is an endless itch to jump on a plane. I recently read Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts and was overtaken once again with the desire to visit India that first gripped me after reading Arundhati
- [making tracks](https://irmagold.com/making-tracks/) - I’m in the process of designing a new website with the help of a very talented friend which means that this blog has been even more neglected than usual. But I wanted to put down a few words about Express Media and their recent Tracks program because they are doing such great things to support
- [Chief Minister's Reading Challenge wraps](https://irmagold.com/chief-ministers-reading-challenge-wraps/) - A celebratory event at the National Library saw the ACT Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge wrap for the year. It was wonderful to see so many students from so many schools in attendance, and for us ambassadors to celebrate our year of working to get kids hooked on books (not that it feels like work!). And
- [2016 reading picks](https://irmagold.com/2016-reading-picks/) - It’s that time of the year where bookish types reflect on their year’s reading list, so I thought I might as well toss my faves into the ring. In 2016, I read 68 books*, which doesn’t seem nearly enough. Looking at the stats of childless friends, I’ve noticed that they tend to fit in well
- [On success](https://irmagold.com/on-success/) - Success is a funny thing, particularly in an era where you can be famous for doing absolutely nothing. Kardashians of the world aside, writers mostly seem to have a complicated and uncomfortable relationship with success. They often crave it, and yet when it arrives they feel undeserving. There are multiple ways to define literary success:
- [Bits and pieces](https://irmagold.com/bits-and-pieces/) - I haven’t blogged for some time but there’s been lots happening so I thought I’d post a quick newsy update about literary travels, events, a new editorial role, and the publication of a couple of new short stories. Megumi and the Bear is still getting out and about, with two events in Brisbane earlier this
- [12 curly questions](https://irmagold.com/12-curly-questions/) - Kids’ Book Review recently interviewed me for their 12 Curly Questions series. I had a lot of fun, and revealed a few secrets along the way. 1. Tell us something hardly anyone knows about you. When I was 14 and on tour with a children’s choir in Los Angeles, I was in a house fire.
- [To agent or not to agent?](https://irmagold.com/to-agent-or-not-to-agent/) - I’ve been meaning to write about agents after recording a podcast for Kill Your Darlings journal some weeks ago, but with the release of Megumi and the Bear I haven’t managed to find the time. I promised myself that I wouldn’t upload the podcast until I could write about everything I left out for the
- [Storytime fun](https://irmagold.com/storytime-fun/) - On Saturday I got to spend the afternoon with authors Jackie French, Tania McCartney and a bunch of book-loving children. Frankly, it doesn’t get much better than that. Here we are just hanging out in front of a gorgeous window display of our books, as you do. Electric Shadows Bookshop was made cosy with fluffy
- [The Invisible Thread series: Barbara Blackman](https://irmagold.com/the-invisible-thread-series-barbara-blackman/) - The sun is out, it’s school holidays, and I’ve slowed down a little, which is to say that I’ve neglected these posts. But I’m back today with Barbara Blackman. I interviewed Barbara in winter, heavy with a flu I couldn’t shift. At her home, I traipsed upstairs and down with Dylan, the camera man, looking
- [rating the underrated](https://irmagold.com/rating-the-underrated/) - Today’s post is about some lovely news. Two Steps Forward has been shortlisted for the inaugural Most Underrated Book Award, and I’m pretty chuffed. As author Nigel Featherstone is fond of quoting, only one per cent of writing in Australia gets published. (I have no idea how this stat was arrived at but if Nigel’s
- [The job of colouring in](https://irmagold.com/the-job-of-colouring-in/) - Sharing the books you read as a child with your own children is an incomparable literary pleasure. But an even rarer pleasure is to share a writer who spans the generations. I read Graeme Base as a child and after three decades he is still publishing new books that my own children are now reading.
- [Calling on the crowd](https://irmagold.com/calling-on-the-crowd/) - Crowd-funding is the new big thing, and it’s raising big bucks. Not surprisingly, the notoriously under-resourced arts sector has been quick to recognise the opportunities it offers to access a new kind of funding. Pozible, Australia’s largest crowd-funding platform, has only been going since 2010 but it has already supported over 1300 projects and raised
- [On reading and the ACT Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge](https://irmagold.com/on-reading-and-the-act-chief-ministers-reading-challenge/) - One of the cool things about being Ambassador for the ACT Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge is that you get an extra excuse to do school visits. Last week I headed out to Southern Cross Early Childhood School to meet a bunch of Kinder students. Let’s face it, Kinder is the most adorable school age, and

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- [BIOGRAPHY](https://irmagold.com/) - ABOUT IRMA Bookish stuff Irma (pronounced Ear-ma) is an award-winning Australian author, editor and podcaster. Her books have been published in the US, UK, Canada, South America, Spain, China and Poland. Her most recent novel, Shift, was published to wide critical acclaim in March 2025. Books+Publishing said: ‘Shift has cemented Irma Gold as a standout
- [EVENTS](https://irmagold.com/events/) - FORTHCOMING EVENTSOne Book One Wagga 10 July 2026 CSU Playhouse, Wagga Wagga, NSW As part of Wagga Wagga’s city-wide book club, Irma will talk with Louise Milligan about her latest novel, Shellybanks. Riverina Readers Festival 11 July 2026 Wagga Wagga, NSW 11.15am Irma will chat with Anita Heiss about her latest novel, The Paradise Pact.
- [EDITING SERVICES](https://irmagold.com/editing-services/) - EDITING SERVICES Irma has worked as an editor for 26 years, both freelance and in-house. She was Convener of Editing at the University of Canberra for a decade, and currently freelances as a book editor for Australian publishers, including Hardie Grant, Allen & Unwin, Walker Books, UWA Publishing, Penguin Random House, Murdoch Books, National Library
- [PODCAST](https://irmagold.com/podcast/) - SECRETS FROM THE GREEN ROOM Irma is the founder of the Secrets from the Green Room podcast, and co-host with Karen Viggers. In each episode they chat with an author or industry professional about their experience of the writing and publishing process in honest green room-style, uncovering some of the plain and simple truths, as
- [CONTACT](https://irmagold.com/contact/) - CONTACT Write to Irma direct at irma.gold.writingATgmail.com You can also follow Irma on Facebook, Instagram and Goodreads.
- [BOOKS FOR ADULTS](https://irmagold.com/books/adults/) - SHIFT Arlie is a moderately successful thirty-something photographer who can’t seem to get his shit together. He can’t hold onto a girlfriend, or much else, and his relationship with his parents is complicated. His agoraphobic mother, Dellie, has long drawn silence over her South African upbringing. The more she refuses to illuminate, the more Arlie
- [SHORT FICTION](https://irmagold.com/books/shortfiction/) - SHORT FICTION Irma’s short fiction has been widely published in literary journals, including Meanjin, Island, Westerly, Review of Australian Fiction, Going Down Swinging, The Big Issue, The Canberra Times, Mascara Literary Review, Tincture, Verity La, Grapple Annual, Idiom 23, Four W, and many others. Most of these stories are not available online but a few are
- [BOOKS FOR KIDS](https://irmagold.com/books/kids/) - SEREE'S STORY Seree loves nothing more than eating sweet mushy bananas, rolling in squelchy mud and playing with her family in the jungle. But one day she is captured and put to work in a circus. All she wants is to find her mother, and freedom. Will she suceed. A heart-warming story from author and
- [BOOKS](https://irmagold.com/books/) - BOOKS FOR ADULTS SHORT FICTION BOOKS FOR KIDS
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