Personal writing achievements and news for happy sharing.
As a passionate creative, I often think out of the box to diversify and monetise my skills. I love discovering how other creatives do it too – it gives me ideas. A writer’s life isn’t just about sitting down in your uggies and opening up a laptop! With that in…
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
Thanks to The Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast, you can now listen to my flash fiction story “Shy” either by clicking on this link or playing the video below! Why not read and listen at the same time? The words to “Shy” are here. Why not compare narrations? “Shy” was…
Yesterday, I had the amazing honour of being an artistic ‘Forest Ambassador’ with the very talented sustainability and natural mixed media artist Gloria Florez and the very talented video installation artist Alyson Bell. Together we created a collaborative exhibition that combined our three very different yet complimentary methods of artistic…
It’s my birthday today, so here’s a present for you – I’m over on AntipodeanSF again this month, in their bumper edition to celebrate the magazine’s 250th issue, and 21 years of AntipodeanSF, with my short story ‘A Witch’s Place‘. Here’s the beginning: ‘The fire is beautiful!’ Aunt Joan shouts…
Life can be over in an instant. Last Tuesday, I almost lost mine. If it wasn’t for a lucky moment or two, I would have smashed into the rocks at Manly’s South Steyne and drowned. Poetically, this was the same day I blogged about loving nature, because it helped me…
