Whether you need to flesh out a character, develop a synopsis or write a novel, our online courses, mentorships and assessments have your back. Writing Sparks draws on my own author and teaching experience, and centres on creating a vibrant …
Submissions are now open for Hardie Grant’s inaugural Spark Prize! Entry dates: Thursday, September 17, 2020 (All day) to Friday, October 16, 2020 (All day) The Spark Prize is an exciting new opportunity for writers of narrative non-fiction. According to Hardie …
I wrote this post for the wonderful Margaret River Press during Melbourne’s first lockdown in March this year. At the time I could hardly have imagined we’d still be here, or rather further down the line in stage four lockdown. …
Well, I finally got around to writing about two great joys in my life – writing and cycling; and how they work together to spark my creative process. Thanks Margaret River Press for publishing this piece. See extract below or …
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 …
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