Articles By Sylvia Petter
The Burka
By: Sylvia Petter on: Monday 18 May 2020 - Genre: Stories
My story, “The Burka”, was a finalist and Editor´s Pick in Red Room´s Scandalously Short Story Competition of the now defunct Red Room and was subsequently published in Short S...
Once Upon a Time in India
By: Sylvia Petter on: Sunday 17 May 2020 - Genre: Literary Studies
This profile of Janette Turner Hospital first appeared online at Thresholds and is now part of 9 Years of Short Story Features, Expertise and Support for the Form – A Historic Archive, 2009...
Warming Up Before Sitting Down: from online to inter-face writing support
By: Sylvia Petter on: Sunday 17 May 2020 - Genre: Writers Resources
This paper was prepared as a contribution to the 2nd International Conference on Creativity and Writing, Orivesi, Finland, 19 to 22 November, 2010. As an Australian writer having lived most o...
Grandir
By: Sylvia Petter on: Friday 2 March 2018 - Genre: Stories
Ce n’est pas que je ne voulais rien être quand je grandirais, c’est simplement que je ne voulais pas grandir. Alors quand les adultes n’obtenaient pas immédiatement de...
Grow Up
By: Sylvia Petter on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories
It’s not that I ever wanted to be anything when I grew up. I just didn’t want to grow up. So when grownups didn’t get an answer to the ‘be’ question straight away, they...
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