Penguin Plays Rough

17/09/2015

Hi all, check out this excellent new podcast series produced by former PPR co-organiser Elly King:

True Stories is a weekly 7-part podcast series of stories written and read by Australia’s best emerging and early-career writers.

23/09/2013

16/08/2013

S*x is sexy:

Prose is sexy. Bret Easton Ellis reckons James Salter is “the last great American stylist.” Have a riff of this gloriously sculpted piece of writing called Last Night. And if you’re too turned on t...

05/07/2013

It's all systems go at the mo. Come see us in Penrifff!

On Saturday July 13 Penguin Plays Rough will be opening Story, the latest exhibition at Penrith Regional Gallery. With artworks on exhibit by Shaun Tan, Kate Mitchell, and a few references to Star ...

05/07/2013

Some excellent discoveries made by Wolfgang this week:

The problem with celebrity interviews is that they’re a public moment in which the host is trying to get something private and ‘real’ out of their subject, and it’s inevitably contrived. American a...

07/06/2013

Fictions on the internets! Justin Wolfers' latest compilation:
http://penguinplaysrough.com/2013/06/07/internet-fiction-digest-6/

Ladiez! A dark horse won the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction this week (formerly the Orange Prize), in the form of AM Homes, for ‘May We Be Forgiven’ - taking out the honour and the £30k over big g...

01/06/2013

THEY'RE SO CLOSE, PLEASE HELP THEM, GOOD PEOPLE THESE ARE

Schoolhouse is moving to a new site and needs to raise $50000 for the interior build.

02/05/2013

If you're interested in adventures on an island and unique experiences taking you out of everyday life, check out this Pozible campaign by We Do Not Unhappen, for their project which will be developed at Underbelly Arts Festival in July-August. We'll also be working with them later in the year to create an interactive literary exploration of the Justice and Police Museum, but more about that closer to the date:

we do not unhappen has been accepted into Underbelly Arts 2013 and will be finalising our new immersive project, 'I met you in a city that isn't on the map' on Cockatoo Island in July and August. This is a matched crowdfunding campaign, generously supported by the Keir Foundation, who is doubling

23/04/2013

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22/04/2013

STORIES ABOUT ENERGY AND SUCH

Penguin Plays Rough, FBi Radio's All The Best, Make Space For Architecture and The Rizzeria inhabit The Rocks Windmill in an inspiring series of events.

07/04/2013

14/03/2013

Adventures South of No North

week 2: Oliver Mol

http://www.mca.com.au/events/club-night-storytellers-anon-14-Mar/5833/