Author Archive: Sylvia Petter
Sylvia Petter is Australian and lives in Vienna, Austria. Her stories have been published online and in print, as well as in her collections, The Past Present (2000/2001) and Back Burning (2007). She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from UNSW, Sydney, and is revising her novels, Tillandsia and Ambergris, writing stories and enjoying her day job at the University of Vienna. Her agent in Australia still loves her.
Visit Sylvia Petter's website www.sylviapetter.com. Subscribe to her blog at www.mercsworld.blogspot.com. Like her page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SylviaAPetter and follow her on Twitter as Mblobs, (But be forewarned, she mostly just follows anything that interests her there.)
Reclaiming the Right to Write – “One Year To A Writing Life” by Susan Tiberghien
This review of Susan Tiberghien´s book was published in Bookarazzi when it first came out in 2007. Susan is the woman who showed me that I had the right to write. Now that I´m no longer able to participate in her workshops in Genveva, I am happy to have her book which I consult regulary for […]
How My Day Job Saved My Writing Life
We don’t all start out as writers. Some of us may not have thought that writing was even an option. I came late to writing fiction: I was in my forties, thinking of doing an MBA to further my career in telecommunications policy in Geneva, Switzerland. I signed up for one module with the Open University […]
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