Graphologists claim your handwriting can reveal clues to your personality and that no two people have the same handwriting. Being an unconscious habit, we tend to weave our identities into the way we write, so by analysing size, slant and pressure graphologists can determine things like imagination, self-confidence, repression and…
Listening to a sequence of sounds has no obvious survival value for humans. Yet according to a 2001 study by neuroscientists at the University of Montreal, music has the same effect on our brains as sex and good food. Why? It could be because with music we get whatever emotion…
Who is Leife Shallcross ? Leife Shallcross lives with her family at the bottom of Mount Ainslie in Canberra, in a house she painted turquoise. Her work has appeared in several Australian anthologies and Aurealis, and she has more stories forthcoming in 2015, including in the next CSFG anthology, The…
No matter what your vocation in life, music can inspire you. It can lift and comfort. It can embrace and acknowledge. It can nullify your existential loneliness in a way unique to any other art form. It can unite us and connect us, make us think differently about situations and…
In January this year, I asked a bunch of writers what their writing goals were for 2013. Was their focus going to be novels, short stories, non-fiction… what? I was interested to see what everyone was planning to achieve, so conducted a poll on my Facebook page. Here are the results…
Last month, I shared a photo on my Facebook stream about the universe. It had stars and mountains and a lot of swearing in it. As soon as she saw it, my mother called. She was surprised I would swear on Facebook. Wasn’t I worried what other people would think?…
Winds of Change is an anthology of short stories published by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild and it’s awesome – and not just because it’s got one of my sci-fi stories in it!! For the first time since its publication in 2011, it’s now available online (in most formats from…
