What a week! First I won a Ditmar Award (read more about that here), and now my flash fiction story Shy has been published over at AntipodeanSF. “Our skies are covered in everlasting cloud, except for one hole we call the Break. It arrives above our island at the same…
You know how sometimes you enter a competition and think to yourself: Gee, it would be nice to win, but that won’t happen so I may as well just get on with other things And then you don’t win, so at least you win at ‘being right’…? Well *that* but…
Because I’m incredibly lucky to be a mother of two wonderful healthy children… Because giving sick kids a story to read and spending the next few months raising money for them is definitely something I can do… Because my writers’ group wanted to do the same… The Northern Beaches Writers’…
A few years ago, my husband and I were living in a tiny unit with our two young kids, and it was bathtime. Our bathroom had so little ventilation that unless we left both the window and door open, mould would grow on the ceiling from trapped steam. While Hubbie…
It’s my birthday today. Woo hoo! To celebrate, I have a gift… for you. It’s another blog post over on the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild blog – lucky you!! This time I’m talking about how to manage your writing time efficiently… Time – as writers it’s probably our most precious commodity.…
This week I’m over on Need Help Write Now being interviewed by the very lovely and influential Eda Utku about my favourite books, geography, themes I explore in my writing, inspiration and my next writing project… Spotlight on Zena Shapter Zena Shapter is a British-English fiction writer, published author and…
Have you ever wondered how we’re going to properly navigate this new ocularcentric culture of ours, where the semiotic landscape is dominated by the visual? What is the future of language when it’s becoming so entwined with such plural literacies? Well, Jessica Frawley, a researcher in the UTS Centre for…
