This time last week, I stood beside a stranger’s grave. He felt like family. He wasn’t. Not even a distant relative or ancestor. Let me backtrack a little. My daughter and I spent Easter in Cairns, catching up with family and enjoying the tourist attractions. We walked through rainforest and ate fish and chips by […]
With World Poetry Day just around the corner, I’ve been thinking about the poems that have stayed with me long after I first discovered them. Some have become favourites because of the poets’ language choices, others because of the memories associated with them. But all have remained significant in some way. Here are ten of my favourite […]
Little Levi Wibberley captured many hearts, including that of celebrity chef Manu Feildel, when his parents went public about his battle with Krabbe Disease. Sadly, he succumbed to the illness in May 2015, but Ashley and Ben Wibberley continue to raise awareness of this and other rare diseases. Krabbe Disease is one of approximately 7,000 rare diseases, 50% […]
Here I sit, tucked away in my cabin in the hills. I’m looking out through the trees to the cityscape, listening to the birdsong, and ruminating over the weekend that was the 2016 Perth Writers Festival. I’ve attended the Perth Writers Festival for a number of years, but this was my first as a published […]
In case you haven’t heard, I’m currently enjoying the role of emerging writer-in-residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Writers’ Centre – so named because the house and surrounding grounds in the Perth foothills were once home to writer Katharine Susannah Prichard and her husband Hugo Throssell, VC. I first heard of Katharine Susannah Prichard when […]
This year has been full of ‘firsts’ for me. Firsts such as a new-look Treefall Writing, travelling to Chile, learning to run (I have a long way to go), learning InDesign (even further to go), launching a book, and being interviewed on radio. And as I’ve mentioned elsewhere on Treefall Writing, much of this has taken me […]
Welcome to Six Degrees of Separation, a monthly meme created by authors Annabel Smith and Emma Chapman. They provide a book title and we link it to six other books in any way we like. It’s supposed to be posted on the first Saturday of the month, but I’m just scraping in on the last […]
It’s been a crazy few weeks. For those of you I’m already connected to – in person or via social media – you will already know that Many Hearts, One Voice was finally launched on Sunday, 1 November. The launch of Many Hearts, One Voice exceeded my hopes and expectations in more ways than one. Fremantle Press had […]