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Sunday, 30 August 2015
Friday, 28 August 2015
A Poetry Competition Exploring the un(natural) UK
If something is unnatural does that make it bad or wrong?
What does natural mean anyway?
Unpacking what different people mean when they describe something as
natural or unnatural could help us to have more constructive
conversations about developments in science and technology.
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics and Apples and Snakes are calling on poets from across the UK to help us...
Monday, 24 August 2015
New Website for Fremantle Press
Fremantle Press launched a new e-commerce website in August 2015. The website
has been revamped to include specific sections for teachers and book
clubs, while making it easier for customers to engage with authors. There's information on submitting your manuscript, books for bookclubs and you can subscribe to their enews. However, I discovered a link through Google and was able to find each post...
Wednesday, 19 August 2015
Workshop 2: Plot & Development - writing an outline for a story/novel
Second workshop in the Series: Plot & Development with Helen Hagemann
Friday, 21st August 2015 1.00-3.00pm, Room 3, Fremantle Arts Centre.
Cost: $20 OOTA $25 NON-OOTA
This workshop "How to write an outline" includes writing a novel or short story outline of one of your favourite authors, and by utilising a template of Helen Hagemann's "3 Act outline" of her novel The Ozone...
Sunday, 16 August 2015
We're all ARTISTS in our family!
Very proud of my son! Shortlisted, and now Runner-up in the Think Brick (Masonary) Award. Many thanks to the Sunday Times for a front page view of this stunning house, inspired by owners' choosing the work of Iwan Iwanoff (Perth Architect). Andrew Hagemann of Fringe Architects chose the robust products of Midland Brick's concrete blockwork for the main double-leaf thernal mass walls, lintel blocks...
Sunday, 9 August 2015
Poem: Butcherbird in the Tuart Gums
Butcherbird in the Tuart Gums
Some days I carry a heavy weight
in a hessian bag that it's hard to get
through the trees.
Other days I'm careful to make room
under feet so that I'm not crushing leaf
litter where an anchored world lives.
The butcherbird carries the self much
lighter than a hessian bag full of stones
and can be heard singing in the Tuart
gums near my street. It seems this songbird
is...
Sunday, 2 August 2015
Introducing a Series of Workshops titled: Plotting & Development
Workshop Series: Plotting & Development with Helen Hagemann, Friday 7th August 1-3pm at the Fremantle Arts Centre.
Utilising Lawrence Block's "Writing the Novel"
and other references, this is the first in a series of workshops to
help writers understand the narrative arc of the novel / short story.
Helen aims to take writers through the many steps as a guide from...
Saturday, 1 August 2015
A Wildlife Reading at the Fremantle Arts Centre
Many thanks to friend and writing colleague Sarah Leighton who photographed this selection of angles at my writing group's fortnightly reading of poetry in Canvas Cafe, Fremantle Arts Centre on Friday, 31st July.
The term wildlife may refer to the man up on the scaffold, but not so. I read a selection of poems from my children's collection titled Miniscule. It seemed the poem...
