Creating the Crocodile
For the better part of a year, Aaron Fa’Aoso and I have been working on a new book. Spirit of the Crocodile, a novel for middle grade readers, includes crocodiles, crazy dares and climate change. But how did this book come to be?
Are diaries literature?
Having briefly gone down that particular Google rabbit hole, I can safely say – I don’t know. Plenty of others purport to know, however, if you need to fill a vacant hour or three. I think diaries are to a finished text the way preliminary sketches are to a finished oil painting. Beautiful, sure, and…
An acquisition, a shortlisting and a scholarship!
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, and I’m beyond delighted to have made the cut; ‘for a biography of Louisa Lawson, newspaper proprietor, poet, suffragist and mother of Henry Lawson.’ What a strong list and what an honour to be included in it. Although those of you who’ve…
Emerging Writers Festival
Writers! The Emerging Writers’ Festival is always terrific (whether you’re an emerging writer or not). Most writers’ festivals are actually readers’ festivals – they focus on the content of the books under discussion. But the Emerging Writers’ Festival focuses in the loveliest way on the act of writing, and on being a writer. And yes,…