Meet Levi. This cheeky little Perth boy is about to celebrate his first birthday. He loves Mickey Mouse, music and cuddles with his grandparents. Levi’s young parents Ashley and Ben Wibberley should be looking forward to a long list of firsts: first steps, first day of school, first bike ride. But as they plan a […]
Earlier this year, I heard Australian author Claire Zorn speak about her YA novel The Sky so Heavy at the Perth Writers Festival. I bought a signed copy for my teenage son, only to discover he had already borrowed it from the library (‘But I’ll read it again. It’s good.’) – and wound up reading it […]
Welcome to Treefall Writing. The title for this blog came partly from the centuries old philosophical question, made famous by Bruce Cockburn’s song in the late eighties: If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear? There is also a term in forest ecology called the treefall gap. A treefall gap is an opening in the […]