Phil Fitzpatrick Keith Jackson & Friends: PNG Attitude, 19 May 2011 ‘A Thousand Coloured Dreams’ by Josephine Abaijah and Eric Wright, Revised Edition, Pearson Education Australia, Pacific Writers Series, South Melbourne, 2001, ISBN:0733925413 I’VE ALWAYS THOUGHT of myself as being reasonably enlightened. Every so often something crops up to bring home the truth and remindContinue reading “Why PNG needs a thousand dreams”
Category Archives: Women’s Writing
Rochelle Bokalen reminds us to love our Mama Graun
A poem entered in the Mini-Poetry 2022 Competition for World Environment Day Poem by Rochelle-Rhiannon Bokalen Mama Graun This place I live in Is a land ever green Blanketed with blue waters From which many islands adrift. From the highlands to the islands We embrace our tropical forests With towering trees, looming over the horizonsContinue reading “Rochelle Bokalen reminds us to love our Mama Graun”
Dominica Are & her Prized Possessions
HAZEL KUTKUE| Sipikriva Girl Blog | Photographs by Dominica Are ‘Prized Possessions: A Collection of Poetry’by Dominica Are, paperback, 132 pages. Independently published, March 2020. ISBN-13 979-8622956454. Available here from Amazon for $US8.73 BRAUN – Poetry makes for beautiful literature. Sipikriva Girl, despite not entirely embracing poetry, had the opportunity to speak to 34-year old writer, poet andContinue reading “Dominica Are & her Prized Possessions”
WHY BUY A PNG AUTHORED BOOK?
By Caroline Evari A fellow Papua New Guinean author once told me, “I gave up drinking when I got the response from my fellow Papua New Guinean menfolk that my K50 book was too expensive. A carton of beer seemed more affordable than a reading book” How many of us have picked up a PNGContinue reading “WHY BUY A PNG AUTHORED BOOK?”
An Interview with Mary Rokonadravu, Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Pacific Region
Posted by Pacific Corporation Foundation Mary Rokonadravu, a Fijian writer, is the 2022 winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Pacific region. Her story, The Nightwatch, was one of 6,730 entries this year and shortlisted alongside 26 other writers from the continents of Africa, Asia, Canada & Europe, and the Caribbean. Of thisContinue reading “An Interview with Mary Rokonadravu, Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Pacific Region”
My Walk to Equality – voices of wisdom, optimism and hope
TRISH NICHOLSON – posted on 19/01/2017 PNG Attitude blog My Walk to Equality, edited by Rashmii Amoah Bell, Pukpuk Publications, 278 pages. Paperback $US10.53 or Kindle $US1.00. ISBN-10: 1542429242. ISBN-13: 978-1542429245. Available here from Amazon MY Walk to Equality is a remarkable achievement. Not only as Papua New Guinea’s first anthology of women writers but also forContinue reading “My Walk to Equality – voices of wisdom, optimism and hope”
Ples Singsing is proud to bring you the winning poems of the Mini-Poetry Competition for World Environment Day 2022
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THESE YOUNG WOMEN POETS First place winning poem by Fiada Kede Poem #01 Tok Pisin translation preferred by the judge Em i wok lon draun Olain! Olain! Yupela i lukim ol mak nogut? long antap tru blo Blu igodaun lo aninit tru blo Blu Blupela Pasifika i wok lon draun Draun insaitContinue reading “Ples Singsing is proud to bring you the winning poems of the Mini-Poetry Competition for World Environment Day 2022”
Special mum,pours out her heart
By LARRY ANDREW – posted on The National CHILDREN with special needs are not sent to special parents; they make parents special.Author Evah Loloh Kuamin says so – and why. Her book My Love -Natugu, is a love story of a mother’s (her own) response to the parental challenges in caring for a special-needs childContinue reading “Special mum,pours out her heart”
PNG-Australian Lydia Gah writes her story of surviving domestic violence to inspire hope and change
ABC Far North / By Brendan Mounter Born prematurely in a remote village on New Britain island, off mainland Papua New Guinea, Lydia Gah learnt to survive from her very first breath. But it’s her story as the survivor of a 12-year abusive marriage that she’s determined to share with the world. Ms Gah has just self-published aContinue reading “PNG-Australian Lydia Gah writes her story of surviving domestic violence to inspire hope and change”
Professional PNG Women Celebrating International Women’s Day
By Betty Gabriel Wakia Today is Tuesday, 8th of March, the International Women’s Day. The campaign theme for this year 2022 is ‘Break the Bias’, in which women imagines a world free of gender-equal from bias, stereotypes and discrimination. Many of us may not be aware, but gender biases and stereotypes are deeply rooted intoContinue reading “Professional PNG Women Celebrating International Women’s Day”
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