Books are here! Over the past few months, I’ve been busy doing everything I can to keep both my creativity and the creativity of others inspired. It’s been a tough time for a lot of authors – author appearances cancelled, author appearances not even organised, community creativity projects ditched due…
Publication day! My story ‘The Kind of Man’ has been published in Volume I Issue 3 of ‘Welkin’, a magazine of fantastic literature, meticulously edited by J. McKenzie Nalley and beautifully illustrated by Zuzanna Kwiecien. This issue is a special issue of horror and dark fantasy, and I’m thrilled to…
According to the Australian Publishers Association, reading changes lives! Reading affects personal and social development, happiness, behaviour, relationships, education, employment, financial well-being, health, and community and cultural participation. Improvements in literacy, at any point in life, can have a profound effect on an individual; and yet research reveals that the…
Today I was supposed to be heading to Mosman’s Barry O’Keefe Library for a ceremony celebrating the 2021 Mosman Youth Awards in Literature, for which I judged the short story entries, selected the winners for the Senior Prose section, and wrote a detailed judge’s report. Since Sydney is in complete…
Today I’m over on the Panache Cat blog talking to Jacqui Brown, editor of Women’s Ink and Varuna House alumni, about… writing! Here’s Jacqui’s intro to the interview: A run-in with a street thief seems like an unlikely moment to know you’re truly a writer, but that’s the way it…
The other day on Facebook, an old schoolmate gave me a really nice compliment. I haven’t seen or spoken to her since school, so the compliment was based on her memories and online perceptions of me. Still, her genuinely lovely comment threw me because I had no idea she or…
It can be tricky to protect yourself as a creator. The act of creation has enormous worth, as does sharing that creation. Fortunately, here in Australia, writers and other creators are granted automatic copyright and moral rights to protect their creative works, which is great! There’s a blog post over…
