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2022 To July, and Counting…
I’ve been locked in a research task for much of the last six months – useless to talk about it as there’s an even money chance it will go...
veritylaughton
Jul 18, 20222 min read
A COUPLE OF QUICK ITEMS
Firstly, the imminent launch of the wonderful Griffith Review’s Edition 76, Acts of Reckoning edited by Ashley Hay with contributing...
veritylaughton
Apr 28, 20221 min read
Christmas Add-ON
I published a Christmas article in signalhouse edition. With their permission I've included it here: DO’S HEDGEHOG SLICE AND BRANDY...
veritylaughton
Dec 28, 20213 min read


October: Notes and Trolls
I know, I know – why have a column called ‘Blog’ if you only write in it occasionally? Well, back like a bad penny. Three things:...
veritylaughton
Oct 14, 20212 min read


Looking back to January
I'm multi-tasking here – pinching the copy from the 7-ON blog site to cover the first six months of this year. I love what I call the...
veritylaughton
Jul 2, 20213 min read


Book Launch June 4th Gleebooks, Sydney
For anyone who might be in Sydney on June 4th, my playwrights' group, 7-ON is launching our latest collaboration – a book of chamber...
veritylaughton
Jun 2, 20211 min read


NEWS ITEM!
There’s a lot going on in my world right now but one item at a time…as you’ll see in the press release below, 7-ON Playwrights, the...
veritylaughton
May 4, 20212 min read
Consequences...
The big topic this month (March, 2021) is women’s rage. Most women I know are exhausted by it. Most women I know would still keep quiet...
veritylaughton
Mar 24, 20212 min read


AND THE BEAT GOES ON…February 2021
This morning we watched through the big window that embraces the century-old gum trees outside our bedroom as the sky almost...
veritylaughton
Feb 17, 20216 min read


JANUARY 2021
A few links here, just to get this new year started: Link to the STCSA/ActNowTheatre’s Decameron 2.0 project: my offering, starring...
veritylaughton
Jan 11, 20212 min read


NOVEMBER 2020. OH MY.
And it’s hi to the world of Covid-19ing, mystified US election watching, bewildered Brexit bemusement and So It Goes…What to say? Will...
veritylaughton
Nov 21, 20201 min read


Blue
I’m writing this from Cape Hart, a place we go to on Kangaroo Island. It’s an isolated spot on the south-east coast of the Island, on the...
veritylaughton
Oct 17, 20204 min read


Worlds of Dreams
Any short-term writing during this pandemic feels contingent as you write it. I’ve been working on a YA fantasy novel over a number of...
veritylaughton
Sep 23, 20202 min read
HINGE OF THE YEAR
How is corona treating you? Where are you living? What are you doing? As we segue into a possible second wave in some spots, bunker down...
veritylaughton
Jun 25, 20206 min read
COVID, COVID AND CATCHES-22
It’s been a happenstance of timing but during the pandemic, I have been spending most of my time on an isolated share farm in the...
veritylaughton
May 13, 20204 min read
AFTER THE MAELSTROM
Well, so much for regular blog entries. My last entry was approximately four months ago. I’m calling it a maelstrom in the header above...
veritylaughton
Apr 16, 20202 min read
News (though not Views right now...)
I have recently been awarded an internship loosely related to the work I have been doing for my doctorate, as in a four-month (paid! how...
veritylaughton
Nov 22, 20191 min read
Managing Mondays...
The other (Monday) morning, I was footling around, post-domestic tasks and pre a medical appointment – anything to avoid a blank page...
veritylaughton
Oct 16, 20193 min read
Looking forwards, looking back...
I have now been working as a playwright/writer for long enough to be able to trace some ongoing preoccupations in my work and thought. At...
veritylaughton
Sep 19, 20197 min read
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