CHARMIAN CLIFT’S KALYMNOS: A Workshop for Readers and Writers has just finished for 2026!

Read the journal passages produced by Clifties taking part in the 2026 workshop in the The Kalymnos Workshop Journal.

Held on the island 03-12 June 2026, this ten-day workshop was operated by Limelight Arts Travel and led by Clift’s biographer, Nadia Wheatley.

Read about it in This article in The Kalymnos Times:

https://kalymnostimes.com/english-page/f/find-your-%E2%80%9Cmermaid%E2%80%9D-in-charmian-clift%E2%80%99s-kalymnos

And watch these interviews with the particicants, recored at the final Workshop.

https://youtu.be/yNDpTR6Em14

https://youtu.be/9bAKu7xy294

https://youtu.be/Q-uYDcIT5ws

MEDIA

In this article in the Greek-Australian newspaper, Neos Kosmos describes the Gleebooks launch (24 August 2025) of Honour’s Mimic, by Nadia Wheatley and Helen Vatsikopolous. (See photo at right.) Here is the link: https://neoskosmos.com/en/2025/08/25/life/books/honours-mimic-charmian-clifts-novel-set-in-greece-celebrated-60-years-on-from-release/

In this Substack, Charmian Clift’s translators discuss the joys and challenges of translating Mermaid Singing and Peel me a Lotus into Greek and Spanish.

https://nadiawheatley.substack.com/p/the-joys-and-challenges-of-literary

On 1 June 2024 there was a terrific piece in the SMH about the documentary Life Burns High, including an interview with film-maker Rachel Lane. https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/charmian-clift-radicalising-force-for-feminism-finally-gets-to-shine-20240529-p5jhlp.html

A recent radio interview celebrating Clift and her essay collection, Sneaky Little Revolutions:

https://www.mixcloud.com/michael-lester5/sneaky-little-revolutions-of-charmian-clift-100-years-mythology-nadia-whealey-author-vol324/

And here is a wonderful review of the Spanish translation of Peel me a Lotus. The Clifties are growing in number, across the world!

https://lecturasdeundine.blogspot.com/2023/10/resena-doble-cantos-de-sirena-y-los.html?fbclid=IwAR0d2N7Bc4RfabL5FE5VuxVooj_C8boa67XfnlzeFdbUUkW_jBuoX2OmcGI

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Photo top: Clift at work in Greece, c. 1956.

Photo below: Clifties on Kalymnos, April 2025

Photo below: Clift on Kalymnos, 1955: ‘looking for a mermaid’.

Photo below: Helen Vatsikopoulos and nadia Wheatey at launch of NewSouth edition Honour’s Mimic 2025.

Bottom: The yellow house’ on Kalymnos where Charmian Clift wrote Mermaid Singing in 1955.(Photo 2022.)