Last weekend, it was my birthday. It was a special birthday too, and I was so very lucky that my entire day was… perfect! Not only did family and friends join in to celebrate my special day, but I got to spend hours with bookish people whom I treasure. And…
Last week was National Youth Week, the largest celebration of young people in Australia. Thousands of young people aged 12-25 got involved in events across Australia, and one of those events was a free writing workshop I organised for young writers at Manly Library. The NYW’s tagline never felt more…
What a great way to start the year – with a feature in January’s Peninsula Living! It’s been a bit of a tough festive season for me, with some bad family news that will see me returning to England for a short time, as soon as possible. So it’s particularly…
Did you know I founded the Northern Beaches Writers’ Group way back in 2009? I created the group because I wanted two things: to improve my own writing through informed peer review + to connect with similarly minded others in my local area Five years later and NBWG is doing…
Over the last few weeks I have experienced life as a publisher – and the journey has given me some interesting industry insights. Firstly, I’d best explain that I haven’t changed professions – I am now and will always be first and foremost a writer. My transition has been a…
This week I was hanging out with teenage writers, helping them write their stories and get those words into print. When I was a young writer, writing was absolutely everything to me. It was more important in fact than anything else in life – friends, family, school, even my personal…
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…
