Apr 10 2009
Photos from the 3rd Contemporary Fiction Festival
At the NSW Writers’ Centre on Sunday, here are some images I took for the 3rd Contemporary Fiction Festival.
Apr 06 2009
On The Side now available from Gleebooks
Advance copies of the UTS Writers’ Anthology 2009 entitled On The Side may now be available from Gleebooks. To be launched at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, the anthology continues the UTS tradition of funkily wrapped fine writing at affordable prices. Enjoy yours On The Side!
Mar 13 2009
Contemporary Fiction Festival
At the NSW Writers’ Centre in Rozelle on Sunday 5th April, the 3rd annual Contemporary Fiction Festival, your humble narrator is the coordinator, meaning I move chairs around and look worried until it’s all over.
Feb 01 2009
Q and A, Slumdog Millionaire
Recently saw the most excellent and award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, enjoying its tight plotting and gorgeous Mumbai travelogue cinematography (albeit underbelly-Bombay).
The film is based on the 2005 novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup which went on to win several international awards.
Vikas Swarup
Jan 31 2009
I am an insect
With great apologies to anyone with perfect (or even approximate) pitch, below is a video of yours truly singing one of his favourite songs from a … um … 1980 … album, The Correct Use of Soap by Magazine …
Nov 06 2008
The Uncertain Voice
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:
Sep 04 2008
Once more unto the loft, dear friends, once more
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!
Jun 21 2008
Mentioned in despatches
Mark Rossiter receives a brief mention in the Sydney Morning Herald “In Short” review of We All Need A Witness today.
May 31 2008
The Young Narrator: writing in the first-person voice
Mark Rossiter presents a paper at the UTS 2008 Postgraduate Research Conference Opening Research Spaces.