Publishing and Communications outreach
The Asking Game
Rose Michael (Publishing and Communications)
Rose Michael's The Asking Game (Transit Lounge) was launched by Brenda Walker on 7 June 2007 as a part of the Sydney Writers' Festival.
The Asking Game was a runner-up in the 2002 Allen & Unwin/Vogel award for an unpublished manuscript where it was described as 'well-written, well-structured, complex and clever', as a 'very sophisticated, well-paced thriller with literary sensibilities' and as 'a compelling, ambitious and ultimately convincing piece of near-future Australian sci-fi' . Edited extracts have been published in Griffith REVIEW 4, Best Australian Stories 2004, Island and Muse.
Liam Davison, The AustralianIt is a stylish, sophisticated thriller that is not afraid to take on the big issues … Alice's quest for her fugitive past and for possible reconciliation with Lucy works marvelously as a personal story of self-discovery while engaging with the public debate that necessarily follows in the wake of scientific advancement.
Rose is currently working on her next novel: The Art of Navigation - an extract of which was runner-up in last year's Conjure short story competition.
View Rose Michael's staff profile
Mark Davis presents Overland Lecture
The 2007 Overland lecture was presented by Dr Mark Davis of the School of Culture and Communication's Publishing and Communications program, as part of the Emerging Writers Festival. The lecture was entitled Myths of the Generations: Baby Boomers, X & Y. Mark Davis's Gangland: Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism was first published in 1997, causing a storm of discussion about babyboomer ideals and issues of generational power in contemporary culture and media. Ten years on, Mark reflected on what has changed - if indeed anything has - and discussed the opportunities for young people within today's cultural power structures.
Read 'Turf War' by Mark Davis, published in The Age on 19 May 2007.