Mark Rossiter

If you’re a writer of history, you might be interested in the 2010 History Festival “Writing the Past” at the NSW Writers’ Centre, Sat 13th March. All kinds of writers from novellists to academics and professional historians will be there and there are panels on historical fiction, writing politics and true crime, memoir and individual lives, stories of Sydney, as well as biography and local/community.

The festival page is here and you can download a program here.

Reading at the launch of Cutwater literary anthology in Chippendale, Sydney. July 11th 2009.

Image by Georgia Blackie 2009.

The Cutwater literary journal, edited by Dan Collins and Sam Twyfford-Moore, is launched on Saturday 11 July.

Mark Rossiter is a participant at the 2008 Australian Association of Writing Programs conference on “Creativity and Uncertainty” on Nov 27. He’ll chair several sessions and also present a paper entitled “The Uncertain Voice”.

Here’s the abstract:

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Tuesday 9th September, upstairs at the legendary UTS Loft, six-thirty for seven, come and hear excerpts from We All Need a Witness, the 2008 UTS Writers’ Anthology, read by the writers, including the indefatigably self-publicising Mark Rossiter. Meet and ask questions of the editors. Learn all about what it means to surrender four months of your life to the Herculean task of making a book — in only four months!

Mark Rossiter presents a paper at the UTS 2008 Postgraduate Research Conference Opening Research Spaces.

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Mark Rossiter is the week 11 guest lecturer on the topic of Manuscript Appraisal for the UTS postgraduate subject Professional Editing.

Mark Rossiter appears as a panellist discussing “New Writing” as part of the Contemporary Australian Fiction Festival, held at the NSW Writers’ Centre in Rozelle.

Mark Rossiter reading from ‘The Song of the Many’ in support of the UTS Anthology 2007 in UTS’ The Loft.

Mark Rossiter reading from ‘The Song of the Many’ at Stanton Library in promotion got the UTS 2007 Anthology What You do and Don’t Want.