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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.

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Diane Simonelli

Diane Simonelli has worked in marketing, publishing, PR and on websites in Melbourne and London. Her short stories have won awards including the Boroondarah Literary Prize and her second novel received an Australian Arts Council grant. A mother of two young boys, she delights in new forms of media and treasures classic print.

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23 October 201223 October 2012 · Writing

When a Facebook page lives on

Diane Simonelli

It was R’s birthday a few days ago. Prior to this, and upon his death, I had been wondering what would happen to his Facebook page.

19 September 201225 September 2012 · Main Posts

iPad how I missed you

Diane Simonelli

I’m not alone in my thinking here. A writer friend, Kate Rizzetti updated her Facebook status on 21 August 2012: ‘iPad’s are crap for blogging. Crap I say. So – exactly what is the point of them?’

7 August 2012 · Writing

Meanland: Exposed

Diane Simonelli

Of publishing in the digital space, a writer buddy says: ‘Sometimes, it’s like having your heart cut out and chopped up before your eyes while the world watches.’

20 December 201128 March 2012 · Main Posts

Meanland: Beautiful statistics

Diane Simonelli

A few visits later to websites of a couple of global curators, and it seems the thing to pull information together to make understanding a breeze, with superb bursts of colour or line drawings or typography or even emblems of some kind or another, is the Infographic.

22 June 201126 March 2012 · Main Posts

Winning Meanland essay 2: The internet has not impacted upon my reading habits in the slightest

Diane Simonelli

For the ten minutes before my children sleep the internet has not impacted upon my reading habits in the slightest. Tonight’s book is a treasure. Behind its thick crème cover, its pages, also crème, are stiff and square with sixties-vintage pictures. Chapter One, Down the Rabbit-Hole, begins on page eleven. ‘Why not page one?’ a […]