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Happy birthday to The Age of Fibs. Big thanks to all who have read, bought a copy, ordered at a library, reviewed, sent lovely messages, liked or shared posts & tweets, commented or recommended it to others, given it stars … Continue reading →

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Getting excited now as my new book is off to the printers this week and is now available for pre-order through Spineless Wonders/Es-Press, with a special discount price for earlybirds. ($19.95 + $5 postage). Huge thank you to everyone who … Continue reading →

Getting excited now as my new book is off to the printers this week and is now available for pre-order through Spineless Wonders/Es-Press, with a special discount price for earlybirds. ($19.95 + $5 postage). Huge thank you to everyone who … Continue reading →

For readers of my poetry memoir, Vagabondage (UWAPublishng, 2014), about the year I lived in a campervan and ideas about ‘home’ — here’s a playlist of video ‘footnotes’. So if you were wondering where the phrase ‘leave no trace’ came … Continue reading →

It was my birthday last month, and I had a party in Sydney with old friends and a new chapbook of poems from PressPress called Never Too Late. Chris Mansell is the force behind PressPress — small beautiful handmade books … Continue reading →

I am surprised and delighted to announce that I am the winner of the inaugural/2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award (#CBdlA) for my fiction manuscript, The Age of Fibs. As a part of this award (as well as lovely cash to … Continue reading →

I love this project from Raining Poetry in Adelaide, where they have stencilled very short poems on the pavement with a special paint that only shows up when it rains. My own rain poem is in this photo. According to the … Continue reading →

This essay/talk explores some of the issues I encountered with the publication of my fiction book How to Conceive of a Girl (Vintage/Random House, 1996) regarding how and when (and if) to seek permission to use short quotes from a wide range … Continue reading →

[Also at my mother’s funeral in September I sang Danny Boy for her. Here’s my introduction to the song.] [If you’d like to read part 1, the eulogy, it’s here.] Mum loved music. When we moved to Yarra Glen Dad … Continue reading →

(This is from the eulogy I gave at my 96 year old Mum’s funeral on the 4th September, 2017 at Boronia Church of Christ in Victoria. There is also a wonderful slideshow of her life at the end, so feel … Continue reading →