Critical examination of bookish events, news and debate.
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…
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…
Today is the last day of Women’s History Month, and to celebrate I’m over on the wonderful Gillian Polack’s blog talking about the importance of visibility, especially for writers. In it, I discuss winning awards, getting reviews, reading in a gender vacuum, and disappearing from history… Click here to read…
So far, it is estimated that 12 million hectares of Australian land have been burned in this year’s ‘Black Summer’ bushfires, at least 32 lives have been lost, and over 2,700 homes. Entire communities have been devastated and it will take time to recover: physically, mentally and financially. The WWF…
I’m thrilled to announce that in 2020 the Northern Beaches Council will again be publishing an anthology of 24 writers and artists, with me as editor. This time the theme is ‘portrait’! I am very excited to edit this anthology, as the 2019 anthology was so utterly amazing. All the…
Happy Book Day! Congratulations to all the fine writers included in the latest NBWG anthology, ‘Of Beasts & Butterflies’, launched on Saturday by our local Federal MP Zali Steggall! It’s an anthology of reimagined fairytales for a modern Australia, and I had the honour of being the anthology’s Editor-in-Chief, as…
The first ever collaborative community anthology supporting local writers, poets & artists: ‘Saltwater’ launched! #CreativeNorthernBeaches @magamnsw #northernbeacheslibraries #ManlyArtFestival2019
