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		<title>Toni Jordan on Plotting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toni Jordan will be joining Ballarat Writers, Saturday April 21, to run a workshop on plotting. Click here for details and bookings.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissawatts.net&amp;blog=13654281&amp;post=302&amp;subd=melissawatts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International Women&#8217;s Day Inspiration</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is International Women’s Day and I’ve been inspired by Whispering Gums to think of texts by women which have inspired me.  I’m busy today, running off to a Ballarat Writers event, which for the last year has had a committee of only women (this AGM we managed to get one male committee member) so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissawatts.net&amp;blog=13654281&amp;post=299&amp;subd=melissawatts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Dr Seuss delt with spam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine has written this fantastic poem &#8211; An Ode to Spam. It&#8217;s a fantastic take on spam, in the style of Dr Seuss. Watch it here on YouTube: An Ode to Spam by Noel Mitaxa. &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissawatts.net&amp;blog=13654281&amp;post=289&amp;subd=melissawatts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pines Hold Their Secrets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jill Blee’s historical fiction always grabs a reader early because of its setting, and The Pines Hold Their Secrets is no exception. Set on Norfolk Island when it was a Penal Colony the novel examines the key elements of politics, religion and social conventions of the time. This is something of a ‘rites of passage’ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissawatts.net&amp;blog=13654281&amp;post=284&amp;subd=melissawatts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Columnist Role</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballarat Independent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few months I&#8217;ve begun regularly supplying columns for the Ballarat Independent. The Ballarat Independent provides an alternative news source to the Courier, which is the local daily newspaper. My columns will range across a variety to topics. You can view my articles here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissawatts.net&amp;blog=13654281&amp;post=280&amp;subd=melissawatts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australian Literature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m signing up for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012. I’m not too concerned about the challenge, because I love Australian Women Writers. I love that there is an undercurrent of fantastic work that sometimes you need to hunt hard for. I found this when I wrote my thesis on early Australian author Rosa Praed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissawatts.net&amp;blog=13654281&amp;post=277&amp;subd=melissawatts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A year in a writer&#8217;s group committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballarat Writers' Inc]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011 was a big year for Ballarat Writers Incorporated and I learned a lot being part of such a fantastic committee.  One of the most exciting achievements for the year was the re-introduction of the workshops. Presenters included Sheila Hollingworth, editors Allison Arnold and Alice Barker, authors Cath Crowley and Jill Blee and poet Nathan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissawatts.net&amp;blog=13654281&amp;post=272&amp;subd=melissawatts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The art of the slow reveal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Morag Joss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morag Joss’ Puccini’s Ghosts has two of the most suspenseful literary tropes – the slow reveal and the unreliable narrator. And when it’s the unreliable narrator who’s divulging the slow reveal the effect is intriguing. In Puccini’s Ghosts the aging soprano Lila Du Cann returns to her childhood home to bury her somewhat estranged father. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissawatts.net&amp;blog=13654281&amp;post=256&amp;subd=melissawatts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does it matter that a VFL coach is a mother?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peta Searle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the Herald Sun posted an article on it’s website with a heading along the lines of ‘Mum wins VFL coaching role’. The article is now online with a more appropriate heading of ‘Peta Searle lands assistant coaching role at Port Melbourne.’ The article begins like this – the emphasis in bold is mine; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissawatts.net&amp;blog=13654281&amp;post=253&amp;subd=melissawatts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ballaarat Mechanics&#8217; Institute Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The building contains a glass reading room with a collection of newspapers and early books that were bought to Ballarat* through the wealth amassed by the goldfields. The Institutes Library was initially designed to cater for the education of the miners, but quickly grew to supply miners with newspapers from throughout the world, a collection [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissawatts.net&amp;blog=13654281&amp;post=249&amp;subd=melissawatts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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