My next CAPITAL LETTERS blog post is up! Head to actwritersblog.com/2016/03/08/first-encounters-with-a-poetry-slam/ to read about my adventures at Canberra’s biggest poetry slam, BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!. Or you can just scroll down! First Encounters at a Poetry Slam Poetry is intimidating. For many (me included) it can come across as pretentious, or stuffy, or borderline incomprehensible….
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I’m so excited! Earlier this month I was lucky enough to be selected as a blogger-in-residence at the ACT Writers Centre. For the next three months, I will be blogging on their website (www.actwritersblog.com). What will I be writing about? Writing, of course! Better yet, my first post has just gone live! Check it out…
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I have taken some time off work, to write. For six months my family and I will be dribbling by on half a long service leave pay packet, freeing me up to spend some time at the computer, to walk my eldest to and from school each day, and to maybe see a movie with…
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Today I attended a workshop facilitated by Writers Victoria. It had been a while. Between full time work and raising two mad-as-baboons little boys, I rarely have time for such classes. I am so glad I attended this one! The topic was “other voices”, covering the fundamentals of creating characters that are believable and speak…
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I don’t get to see a lot of movies. I have two young sons and a deficit of reliable babysitters, so my love of the cinema is generally unsated. But not last weekend. Last weekend my wife and I managed to escape for long enough to see a rather fine piece of cinema called Sicario….
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For my first entry on my new website I want to give you an insight into why I write. But before I do that, let me take you back to where it all began. I’m a dreamer. Not a drifty-eyed, combie-van, hope-for-the-best kind of person, but a dreamer in the most literal way. I…
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