Thanks Margaret River Press for the opportunity to blog with you this month! Reading other writers’ posts from Melbourne has been such a welcome escape from stage 4 lockdown. To read my September blogs or the wonderful insights of other …
Tomorrow afternoon I’m participating in a Q&A session as part of Loreto Mandeville Hall’s innovative Loreto Academy. I’m so looking forward to chatting books and writing with the school’s aspiring young authors!
A HUGE welcome to the thirty wonderful beta users who have come on board to test-drive my new online writing courses platform, Writing Sparks! These good folk are taking the course, Novel: Planning; the first in a four part novel …
Stage 4 lockdown in Melbourne has given me the shove I needed to finally combine my two passions, writing and teaching. The result is WRITING SPARKS – an online, four course series created to take emerging writers from inspiration to …
Recently I attended the online launch of, Sunflower, a beautiful, thought-provoking middle grade novel written by my good friend and fellow author, Ingrid Laguna, as a follow-up to her 2019 novel, Songbird. It was fabulous celebration of Ingrid and her …
Today marks the end of the Melbourne Writers Festival for another year (and what a year it’s been so far!). This year, the MWF went online and pulled-off a literary line-up guaranteed to keep our lock-down blues at bay. Unlike …
I’m looking forward to chatting with the wonderful Pearly Jones on Insta Live this Saturday the 14th of August from 8pm. Join us @pearleyjones to hear delicious discussions on life and literature. BYO drinks and sofa… * For those of …
Some days you hanker for words that just cut through… ‘In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.’ – Alice Munro
Melbourne Writers Festival 2020 kicked off yesterday in full digital format with an illuminating discussion between Torres Strait Islander writer, Thomas Mayor, academic, Megan Davis, and lawyer, Teela Reid, about Black Lives Matter and The Uluru Statement. Despite missing the buzz of physically being in this …
Are you looking for an absolute page-turner? Then put this one on your list of TBR books… The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall is coming soon and is guaranteed to keep you in your pyjamas and glued to the couch …
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