http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ en-us mail@sophiecunningham.com 2012-12-05T15:48:20+10:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/sophie_cunningham_and_joseph_g/ I did a long interview (25 minutes) with the folks from Informit TV recently, which you'll find on You Tube.... 1001@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2012-12-05T15:48:20+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/stella/ A group of us have been working towards a new prize to award women's writing. 1000@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2011-08-30T15:43:44+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/melbourne/ If you'd like to read an extract from my latest book, Melbourne, you'll find the one the Age published a couple of weeks ago here. You'll find Jane Sullivan's review here, and Kate Holden's review here. There was a really... 999@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2011-08-30T15:15:45+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/why_we_still_need_feminism/ I gave a lecture at the Melbourne Writers Festival on Sunday night as a part of their Big Ideas series. It was on why we still need feminism. You can read an extract of it here, on Crikey. Or read... 998@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2011-08-30T14:55:38+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/post_258/ Today's an important day for Australian publishing. Readings bookshop has launched its new ebook store. Australian, independent publishers now have access to a multi-platform ebook that is NOT a part of a monolith like Amazon or Google. Everyone who's contributed... 997@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2011-01-24T14:22:03+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/me_and_meanjin/ I gave this talk at the Wheeler Centre a few months ago, as a part of their Soap Box Lunch Box series. It's about my views on climate change.... 996@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2011-01-24T14:09:45+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/features/the_way_to_react_to_a_potter_p/ This article was first published by Fairfax in December 2011. THERE is a scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 in which the teenage Ron Weasley (played by 21-year-old Rupert Grint) is rescuing Mary Cattermole from the... 995@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Features 2011-01-24T14:00:21+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/features/animal_passions/ This article first appeared in the Age on October 4 2008 We should be doubly mindful of animals' needs because of their uncritical natures, writes Sophie Cunningham. A FEW MONTHS AGO I got into the back of a cab and... 992@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Features 2010-01-07T12:35:21+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/features/begged_borrowed_and_stolen/ This article first appeared in the Age on January 6, 2007 The MCG's sponsor Toyota is besieged by overhead blimps, our refugees get dumped on Christmas Island to keep them off Australian soil, the war against terror morphs over national... 991@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Features 2010-01-07T12:32:46+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/features/in_other_worlds/ This article first appeared in the Age, June 20, 2009 In A writing workshop I ran in Darwin recently, one man wrote of heat so great it made "cattle watery". This was the start of my journey across Australia, through... 990@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Features 2010-01-07T12:31:37+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/katherine/ Katherine is 300 km south of Darwin. There can be severe floods there in February/March - in 1998 and 2006 there was great devastation - and the folks at the NT Writers Centre sent me cheery emails along the lines... 989@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2009-04-22T16:26:00+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/the_great_northern_territory_a/ Last month I went to the Northern Territory for 12 days to teach a series of writing workshops for the Northern Territory Writers Centre. It's always hard to know what people get out of these things but personally, I've never... 988@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2009-04-22T16:24:43+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/meanjin_haz_a_new_blog/ It turned out the sleepover was only brief. Spike, Meanjin's new blog is up and running. While Meanjin's website is being rebuilt and will relaunch soon-ish, the opinionation starts now.... 987@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2009-04-19T16:54:02+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/fiction_writers_tell_all/ 986@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2009-04-17T13:59:28+10:00 http://www.sophiecunningham.com/blog/stephen_fry_is_awesome/ Stephen Fry is wonderful in many ways, but in this podgram in which he both critiques columnist/ranters/journalists and rants wildly himself, he is pure gold. I insist you listen to him. SC... 985@http://www.sophiecunningham.com/ Blog 2009-04-17T13:49:37+10:00