Caroline Reid Writes

Storycast #4. Photo by Ben McGee I have the pleasure of reading again at the live Storycast readings organised by Sam Jozeps and South Australian Writers Centre. I'll be joined by: MC - Sam Jozeps Aimee Knight Robert Horne Nicole Orr Katherine Arguile It's on tonight. From 6.30-7.30 at the SAWC 187 Rundle Street (2nd floor) It's a free event. Further details at: Storycast #7 I'll be reading my short story 'Who Likes Custard?' published in Spineless Wonders Stoned Crow anthology. See you there! C x

Having trouble sleeping? Here's something for you: Storycast, a series of live-streamed late-night readings of poetry and short stories.  Planned and MC'd by the wonderfula Sam Jozeps, the Storycasts are recorded live from various spaces throughout Adelaide and South Australia.  Each live Storycast features new and old work by late and living writers.  Tonight's broadcast is Storycast #4 and I'm on the bill with other writers/readers Katherine Arguile, Sky Harrison, and choir Choral Grief. You can Listen In in real time at 10.30pm (Australian Central Standard Time). That means 11pm for you eastern states folk and 9pm for friends in the West. If you live somwhere else in the world, you'll have to do your own calculations. Google Timezones. But don't worry if you miss the live broadcast (because it's an school night and you need those zzzzz now that you're older than 30), you can listen back at any time that suits you thanks to the w...

Little Fictions @ Knox Street Bar --> A beautiful thing has happened. An idea talked about in 2010, realised in 2011, developed for  3 years and almost ended in 2014 has now, in 2015, morphed into something new. It's a beautiful thing to watch an idea twist, turn, evolve and become something new and whole. It's akin to what we do when we write - articulate that initial idea, test it out, write drafts, rewrite drafts until we have a final product which then goes on to become something else each time it is read. But enough with the writing metaphor – what about the idea? Back in 2011 in Adelaide I produced the first of the Spineless Wonders Presents A short evening of tall stories; then in 2014 we presented our 10th and final event at The Wheatsheaf Hotel. Some folks wanted it to continue but you have to trust your gut with these things - for me, it felt like time to finish up a highly successful series of events. But Bronwyn Mehan of Spineless Wonders publi...

--> anne dessine April already? Hell. Since February I’ve been focussed on a single project and so my engagement with the world wide web has diminished. My Twitter account lies sweetly languid most of the time, I dropped Facebook altogether last year and have not missed it (but that’s another story), and as you can see my last post here was as far back as January. The only place I’m ‘visible’ these days is my Tumblr account, Caroline’s Collage , where I post images of collages I make, many of which are related to the creative project that I’m working on. I’m not saying this disengagement with the internet is right (digital engagement seems to be more and more necessary for writers these days if they want to be noticed and heard above the clamour of so many others), it’s simply what is right for me, at this time. So, to the project – like I said it is my focus, and is likely to be for the rest of the year and next. It doesn’t involve travelling (though I’m doin...

--> Neil Gaiman reads 'A Christmas Carol' Hear ye, hear ye! I’m presenting a workshop at the South Australian Writers Centre on February 7th from 2-5pm, drawing on all that I’ve learnt about performance in the past 25 years (Lordy, has it been that long?!) From my acting days at the Hayman Theatre, Perth in the nineties all the way through to my being recent producer and mc of Spineless Wonders Presents at Adelaide’s Wheatsheaf Hotel, I’ve picked up some tricks that I’m going to share. I guarantee they will induce in you a state of euphoric calm, smooth the creases of your stage fright, have you raring to go and wowing your audience at your very first performance gig! Yeah? No. But I do know how nerve-wracking it is for many writers to have to read their own work aloud to an audience. We’re not all Neil Gaiman, right? (Though I suspect even he started somewhere in the land of nerves). A writer is used to using her mind but what the hell does she...