Anthony Noack

Brighter Whiter & The Gift were performed as part of the 2011 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Reviews: ‘That Noack is able to introduce so many characters in half-an-hour is testament to the quality of the writing on offer here... Overall this is a fantastic hour’s entertainment easily worth the price of entry.’ - Crikey ‘The two short plays proved themselves a worthy inclusion as part of the Comedy Festival lineup, providing the audience with a steady stream of laughter for 60 minutes.’ - Theatre People 'Noack has talent: his work is tight, well-paced, thoughtfully structured. ' - Cameron Woodhead

You can now download Eaglemont in a convenient ePub format from the iBook store . It's also available through Smashwords and affiliated eBook sellers.

Ilura Press have launched their journal Etchings 9: Love and Something. I went along to hear Adam Elliot, of Harvey Crumpet fame, launch the book to a sweltering gallery above Brunswick St. Despite the heat, it was a fun night and the book looks great. A small poem of mine happens to be featured in it too. You can check out a review at http://abookadaytillicanstay.wordpress .com/2010/12/19/182-etchings-9-love-and-something/ or another one by Angela Meyer at http://cordite.org.au/reviews/angela-meyer-reviews-etchings/

I’m the product of my education, grammatically speaking. For me, like many who were educated after slate and chalk became unfashionable, as far as English grammar was concerned, a conjunction was a planetary event occasionally mentioned in the astrology column, and a split infinitive was something to do with Star Trek. I think Scottie used one to power up the warp drive in series three. Once the basics of doing, naming and describing words had been covered, my high school English classes were devoted to over-analysing and over-acting Shakespeare. Along the way we wrote some short stories and somehow picked up the grammatical rules we needed in order to be understood. This system developed in the progressive atmosphere of the swingin’ sixties. Educators who had suffered through the drumming of archaic rules into their heads as children, used the spirit of the times to re-imagine the school system. Creative writing henceforth became the tool through which grammar was to be learnt, provi...

Visible Ink is the RMIT literary journal and this year I've signed my life away to edit it along with Alison Karayan, Allison Browning and Drew Roberts. It's been an intense year and steep learning curve, but after what seemed like a forever of editing and proof-reading, we picked up copies of the journal from the printers today. You can secure your copy through Readings in Carlton. http://www.readings.com.au/product/9780980604818/lost-and-found-visible-ink-21

‘Eaglemont’ is a short fiction that follows the development of the Melbourne suburb of Eaglemont and the changing landscape of the adjacent Yarra Valley. The narrative follows a young boy who wanders through the suburb with a sketch book full of old pictures and cuttings. As he opens this book, he interacts in his imagination with the historical characters that shaped the land around him. Through his travels, we discover the story of the original inhabitants of Mount Eagle, the Heidelberg School of Artists who made it for a time their home and explore the lands reconstruction by one of the nations most influential architects, Walter Burley Griffin. *** Eaglemont is available through Readings, Angus and Robertson and Andrew's Books .