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 …
Many of you will know The Big Issue. But for those of you who don’t, it is an independent, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting and creating work opportunities for people experiencing homelessness, marginalisation and disadvantage. In short, The Big Issue …
Recently, a friend alerted me to a competition being run as part of the 2020 CYA All-Stars Conference. I quickly prepared a submission, which included the first part of a manuscript I’d been working and reworking for years. This particular …
I’m so thrilled my YA manuscript has been chosen as one of the recipients of the 2020 Award Mentorship Program – a HUGE thanks to the Australian Society of Authors and the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund for making this possible! …
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