Launch: ‘Portrait’ Yay! The ‘Portrait’ anthology has been launched! Created from the 2020 ‘Art & Words Project’ – a collaboration between myself, the Northern Beaches Libraries and Manly Art Gallery & Museum – it features 12 writers and poets, and 12 artists, in a themed collaboration devised and edited by…
It’s the first day of spring in Australia today, so what better time to launch my brand new on-demand writing and book creation courses! It’s been a long time in the making: inspiring writers and teaching them about their craft since 1991, working in the publishing industry since 1996, leading…
Every month I donate time to helping others further behind me in their writing journeys. Most recently this has involved judging the Mosman Youth Awards in Literature, for which I not only read the entries and selected the winners, but also offered a detailed judge’s report. This year the award…
A big shout out to my local Northern Beaches Council for supporting both my creative practice and business this month! Their Arts & Cultural Development team very kindly featured me in their creative enews, which goes out to lots and lots of people across Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Yay!! Thank you…
I’m on the radio! Thanks to The AntipodeanSF Radio Show, you can now listen to my short story “A Witch’s Place” by clicking on this link here. The episode is called ‘Alysecherri’ and mine is the first story, so listen from the beginning and you’ll soon hear Ion Newcombe introducing…
You started creating a book, short story, life story or memoir, completed a first draft, now don’t know if it’s truly ‘finished’? Even seasoned writers can struggle with this question of when to stop. As well as writing amazing stories (he he!), I run a full-time creative support business. It…
You started creating a book, short story, life story or memoir; but then you stopped? Now you don’t know how to continue. Even seasoned writers can struggle with the question of how to finish what they’ve begun. As well as writing amazing stories (he he!), I run a full-time creative…
