Personal writing achievements and news for happy sharing.
Yay – I won the Glen Miles Short Story prize! What could be better?? Being able to read my winning story for free, of course! Here’s the opening paragraph of “Champions”, the story that just won me my seventh national writing competition (squee!)… “Can you believe it? Twenty-four years ago…
I’m so proud of *my* writers – the members of the Northern Beaches Writers’ Group. I’m proud of them because they come from many different backgrounds and bring a wealth of experience to their stories. Some of them write crime, romance or speculative fiction, some write children’s, young-adult or teen…
When I was a little girl, I always thought I had the same chance as everyone else to win a prize, the lottery, votes, competitions, etc. When I was a gloomy teenager, I still hoped this was true, yet felt it wasn’t… Every time I entered a competition and lost,…
Look what I just found in my mailbox! Having just completed a seriously mega edit, I needed some fresh air – so thought I’d walk to my front gate and check my mailbox. I’m so happy I did… my copy of You, Me & A Bit of We was inside.…
As some of you may recall, earlier this year my writers’ group and I decided to raise some money for The Kids’ Cancer Project at Westmead Children’s Hospital – doing what we most love to do… write. We wrote, illustrated and printed a book for 11-16 year olds entitled Scribbles…
Have you ever read (or written) a story told in ‘first person plural’, which is where verbs are told with the personal pronoun ‘we’? It’s an incredibly tricky POV (point of view) to master but I’ve done it! My ‘first person plural’ short story Our Something Said has been accepted…
Yay! I won! A few weeks ago, I found out that I’d won the 2013 Australian Horror Writers’ Association short fiction competition with my short story “Darker”. Today… I received the trophy. I thought you might like to see it, so here it is! The judges couldn’t decide between my…
