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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>
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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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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://melissawatts.net/2011/12/01/ballaarat-mechanics-institute-library/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australian Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Novels]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[collections]]></category>
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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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		<title>An end to MTR Radio?</title>
		<link>http://melissawatts.net/2011/11/10/an-end-to-mtr-radio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MTR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week some Melbourne residents have been up in arms with the prospect of losing their beloved MTR radio station. If you are one of these people, let’s look at whose opinion it is that you’ll be missing on a weekday:        On Saturdays: And Sundays: When the radio station first formed it didn’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissawatts.net&amp;blog=13654281&amp;post=239&amp;subd=melissawatts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Southern Cross Literary Competition</title>
		<link>http://melissawatts.net/2011/09/21/southern-cross-literary-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballarat Writers' Inc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a short story up to 5000 words sitting in the bottom drawer? Ballarat Writers are running the Southern Cross Literary Competition worth $1000. This year&#8217;s judge is Paddy O&#8217;Reilly. Visit www.ballaratwriters.com for info.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissawatts.net&amp;blog=13654281&amp;post=221&amp;subd=melissawatts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ballarat Writers and Illustrators Festival</title>
		<link>http://melissawatts.net/2011/09/06/ballarat-writers-and-illustrators-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballarat Writers' Inc]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[YA Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ I’m pleased to report that this weekend was a great success for the Ballarat Writers’ and Illustrators’ festival for 2011. This year’s theme was ‘words and pictures’ with a focus on Children and Young Adult authors and illustrators. A dinner on the Friday night kicked off the festival in fine form. Dominic Brine from ABC [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissawatts.net&amp;blog=13654281&amp;post=235&amp;subd=melissawatts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Pegler</title>
		<link>http://melissawatts.net/2011/08/31/tim-pegler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Watts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australian Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ballarat Writers' Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Novels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few months I have been helping Ballarat Writers to prepare for the Ballarat Writers and Illustrators Festival for 2011. As part of this I have prepared by reading  the novels of young adult author, Tim Pegler. Tim was a guest of Ballarat Writers for a reading night earlier in the year where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissawatts.net&amp;blog=13654281&amp;post=231&amp;subd=melissawatts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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