Oh, my cheer squad! So many hearts to every one of you and special hi to all the new supporters. I just got home from Shrinkola and realised what you all did while I was out and about! I’m speechless. Tempted to use emojis. Got two super exciting appointments to get through tomorrow but will…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.
When overtime is giving back
Content warning: explicit discussion of suicide. http://1.media.dorkly.cvcdn.com/19/72/7c5a39a1b8d562c8100cee06b8573935.gif My body has dragged itself through some noxious filth on its way to the here and now, and getting through it has been hard work. My first suicide attempt was at 11 and my most recent seventeen years ago when l was 23. I haven’t magically stopped thinking about…More
Varuna Affirm Press Mentorship – Friday morning
Writing memoir is an intensive process of self-examination, conducted for the most part in solitude. So winning the Affirm Press Mentorship, which included living with two editors for five days, was both exhilarating and terrifying. For weeks leading up to the residency I’ve been asking the same rhetorical questions: How do you live with the…More
Varuna Affirm Press Mentorship – Thursday morning
Read me on wifi, I have many pictures. Yesterday the words were hard so I took the camera out into the gardens. After much thinking about how the parts combine to tell the whole, I came back inside and kicked many goals.More
Varuna Affirm Press Mentorship – Wednesday morning
Fuckballs.
You know how writing about yourself can be hard work? And how overthinking everything can lead to either tangled knots or brilliant insight?
Well, yeah. That just happened.More
Varuna Affirm Press Mentorship – Tuesday Morning
Last night I wrote on Facebook that the imposter syndrome is strong this time. It’s still strong. I recently read that ‘interesting article‘ by Luke Carman about the Australian creative industries. He makes some very big claims, including several aspersions the’Melbourne literati’. In a lecture by the provocateur, I asked the difficult questions. But now…More
Grist for the mill
Fresh off the rebound from another visit to the palace of justice. Reeling. Thinking. Grinding. Judgement will be given at the next date. Which is December. We will know if the Trump bomb is going to explode by then. I’ll be forty by then. Facebook memories showed me the crime scene this morning, wondered…More
Reblog: Keep making noise
So last night, this happened. At what point have I invited attention here? Or is it the case that I’ve got my head down, keys between my fingers in my pocket, ignoring my boyfriend’s text messages … Source: Keep making noiseMore
Angela J Williams 
