The Permanent Resident Archives

The State of Australian Reality: Roanna Gonsalves’ The Permanent Resident and Anthony Macris’ Inexperience and other stories

Verity La September 19, 2017 Through the Looking Glass: Reviews

Review by David Thomas Henry Wright Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Roanna Gonsalves’ The Permanent Resident and Anthony Macris’ Inexperience and other stories are both short(er) story collections. Both were published in …

UNTWISTING YOUR OWN TONGUE: an interview with Roanna Gonsalves

Verity La March 14, 2017 Lighthouse Yarns

Roanna Gonsalves is the author of The Permanent Resident (UWAP, 2016) a collection of short fiction exploring how the newly arrived find their place in a new land. Her series …

The City Lights of San Francisco (Graham Nunn)August 9, 2011
folding tacos with her left hand she rolls a cigarette wake of the ferry a young couple fight over the timetable long night sirens ... Read More
AUSTRALIA'S NEW HERO OF MAGIC REALISM: an interview with Glenda GuestAugust 17, 2010
In the literary world there is a propensity for prize-winning authors to be elevated – or to elevate themselves – onto a special pedestal, complete with pretentious black-and-white profile photographs ... Read More
SONGS OF TRUTH AND PASSION: an interview with John StokesMarch 20, 2015
In Canberra, among the crowds at a poetry event (indeed any kind of literary happening) there is likely to be a man, a particular man, who goes about his business ... Read More