Venice is an interesting town, though I do not know now with the many
tourists how much one can actually write, but it is still a great and
inexhaustible town at an artistic level. A treat I would say. Too bad your
application was not accepted.
I would love to win one of those residencies, what an experience for a
writer!
Good luck, Max, maybe if you try again.
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:24 AM, judy prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Love that, Max!
>
> Judy
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Richards" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 9:20 PM
> Subject: Making applications
>
>
>
> I once applied for a few free weeks in the Australian Writer's Apartment
> > in
> > Venice.
> >
> > It seemed a fair idea to sound confident so I offered to
> >
> > 'put Venice on the literary map'.
> >
> > I missed out, and have never applied for anything since.
> >
> >
> > On 27/4/08 1:38 AM, "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Dave
> > >
> > > it is a genre, a very special one at that, & some are masters of
> > > it....
> > >
> > > Doug
> > > On 26-Apr-08, at 3:38 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> > >
> > > He is serious about the point though: if people's main energies as
> > > > writers go into making applications for institutional funding, if
> > > > that
> > > > becomes their prime preoccupation as writers, you may well get
> > > > writing
> > > > that is in effect a representation or reflection of that.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Douglas Barbour
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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