This was my office today Dinner last night: Sheila’s marmalade pork with ginger, sauteed mushrooms, mash, beans and cabbage. Dessert was that goddamn amazing lemon delicious pudding. To quote Marsha, one of the writers here, ‘it was like eating mouthfuls of lemon cloud’. Current word count: 32 840 Number of chapters: This is Part 1, the yellow…More
Author Archives: Angela
Angela J Williams, PhD, is a writer, illustrator and story teller from Wollongong, Australia.
She is the author of Snakes and Ladders: a memoir and host of the Deboning Power Podcast.
A writer, thinker and yeller, Angela Williams is mildly notorious for seeing problems and pointing them out. She’s tussled with Fred Nile in the Sydney Morning Herald, taken academia to task in the Guardian’s Anonymous Academic, gone to Crikey about the treatment of mentally ill women in prison, and most recently blown the whistle on dangerous risks in her (former) charity workplace. Angela does one thing really well – find problems and yell about them.
Varuna 2016 Day 3
This was my office today Dinner last night: Sheila’s smoked cod on baby potatoes with asparagus in egg and cream sauce and roasted tomatoes. Dessert: fresh sliced oranges with toffee praline. Current word count: 14 977 Number of chapters: Part 1 now includes 9 almost full draft chapters, still at about 60% old/40% new but now I’ve…More
Varuna 2016 Day 2
Dinner last night: Sheila’s curry and dips selection. We hardly spilt any. Thanks to the awesome Jake Cunningham at Katoomba Ink for my spontaneous mangled Foucault tattoo. This little bit of ritualised torture was exactly what I needed to get those ol’ creative juices flowing. I considered a panther at the end because I wanted longer with the…More
Varuna 2016 Day 1
Current word count: 87 084 (Final PhD draft) Number of chapters: 10 Biggest achievement: Arrived at Varuna, this time I am in the Bear Room. I’ve unpacked, stacked my notes, post its, current copy. Dropped into Katoomba and booked a two hour tattoo session tomorrow for the Foucault quote about truth speaking I’ve been planning since…More
Emotional fallout
It’s 3am, about twelve hours since I was excused from giving evidence. I’ve slept but now I’m awake again. My teeth hurt from grinding them. Today I teach two classes then come home to my lovely new house to meet the removalists. I’m going back to bed to read.More
If I were to be sexually assaulted again, I’m not sure I’d go to the police
It’s now one year and nine days since the last “alleged assault”. In four days I go back to court after a four month adjournment. I’m still technically “under oath”. The last twelve months have been spent trying to recover from this awful thing. On Friday they rip the bandaid off again. I don’t think…More
How to move a library in 8 steps
On October 16 two very big things happen in my world. The first is that we settle on a beautiful 1950s cottage near Wollongong. I’ve been renting for 22 years so finally owning a property is pretty damn exciting. The second is that the hearing recommences for that very bad thing that we’re not talking…More
Sad news but good feedback
So I just got feedback from the publisher who was reading the book. The sad news is that they’ve decided it’s not quite ready for publication yet but this came with some amazing and formative feedback. Right now I’m putting everything I’ve got into getting the thesis submitted before October so I can deal with…More
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