The Sigla Blog

If you’re home tonight and have Film Four, tune in at 10.55pm to see a film called Somersault. It’s an Australian-made independent film from a couple of years back. In 2004, it cleaned up in all 13 categories at the Australian Film Institute awards - the first time that had ever happened in the award’s […]

* Q: “What advice would you give to new writers?
A: “I don’t think you should ever try to make things up. We all lead such strange lives that there is no need to. Use your own experiences and then twist it a bit. You should read what you have written out loud. I write […]

I suspect that I’m probably the only attending blogger in the country without a herculean hangover and possibly the only one out of bed yet. Last night’s 2007 Irish Blog Awards were top fun and a wonderful night all round. Rick did suitably slick job of presenting, Damien Mulley was holding it all together and […]

Only a week or so on from the Irish women writers debate, this article (written about three weeks ago) might suggest I’m on a feminist roll about the exclusion of women, and perhaps writing that article subconsciously kicked off the women writers post. Maybe it’s more rant ‘n’ roll, than rock ‘n’ roll, but then […]

Happy World Book Day, folks…
* Yet another book poll for World Book Day. The Guardian has the list of the ‘100 Books We Cannot Live Without’. Topping that list is Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and the author is to be the subject of no less than SIX film and TV adaptations this year […]

“I’ve always been a Divine Comedy fan but I don’t think the judges will go for Neil.”

Marie, who left the above comment on this post might not mind today that she didn’t predict where the judges votes would go for this year’s Choice Music Prize. Last night, to many people’s surprise, The Divine Comedy won […]