Personal writing achievements and news for happy sharing.
So, the incredibly talented Ditmar award-winning Joanne Anderton just tagged me in this Next Big Thing thingy (thanks too Amanda Bridgeman and Amin Chehelnabi for also asking me), meaning I now have to answer ten questions about my current masterpiece in the making… Thanks Jo!! 1) What is the working…
This weekend in Sydney, free love reigned… of the speculative fiction variety. Having been invited to join a host of local authors to promote and celebrate speculative fiction in 2012 – there was only one thing a girl like me could say… Yes, yes, yes! Towering high above Sydney in…
What a great week I’m having! Now, to top it all off, I’ve become a Page 3 Girl! (do you see what I did there? He he…) My thanks go to my local newspaper, The Manly Daily, for their awesome write-up and great photo of me published this morning on…
As regular readers will know, I recently won the short story competition run by the Fellowship of Australian Writers Manly branch… three years in a row! Three years in a row. Three different judges. Three separate wins of ‘first place’. Hat trick! I know! I couldn’t believe it either. Who…
As some of you may recall, I was on the radio last month talking about my writing. It went so well, I was invited back a few weeks later to critique some writing by others. The radio show Ringside is usually broadcast at 10am on Sundays, so I know a…
Three years in a row! Three different judges. Three separate wins of ‘first place’. Hat trick! I couldn’t believe it earlier today when, at a meeting of Manly’s Fellowship of Australian Writers, acting President Beatrice Yell read out the results for their 2012 Short Story Competition and I realised I’d…
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve just won first place in the 2012 Oberon Writing Competition with my short story A Knight Answers. As the premiere adult writing competition of the Blue Mountains, the Oberon Writing Competition is one to aspire to win. So my jaw dropped when Anne Russell,…
