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Two weeks at KSP Writers Centre
The two weeks I spent at KSP Writers' Centre would have to be the most intensely productive of my short writing life. From the moment I stepped into Aldridge cabin on the Monday afternoon, unpacked all my books and opened my laptop, I was entirely focused on turning...
Israelite Bay
Getting to Israelite Bay is not easy. It is a major setting for my novel and I have only managed to step foot on the sandy salty ground twice. The first time was in 2006, when Tim and I were at the very beginning of our trip around Australia. Marcus, a...
An Apprenticeship
This piece about my uncle Sean won second prize in the Memoir section at the Eastwood/Hills Literary Competition for 2017. ~ This can’t have been the first time I met Mr Sean O’Rourke, but it is the first I remember clearly. I was 9 years old and my aunty Steph...
Spring flowering
Our spring trip to the Wheatbelt and Great Western Woodlands coincided with the most spectacular display of flowering.
Eucalypts of Great Western Woodlands
Way way back in September Tim and I finally made it to the Great Western Woodlands. I have so many photos, so many words and so many thoughts. So many as to stop me from doing anything at all. Here, if nothing else, are some images from the awe inspiring diversity of...
KSP Fellowship
I'm thrilled, shocked and amazed all at once to have been one of the lucky twelve chosen for a fellowship at the Katharine Susannah Pritchard Writers Centre in 2017. The application required choosing just 1000 words from the manuscript, together with a synopsis and...
Please can we reframe the debate on climate science?
I wrote this quite ranty piece at a time when Senator Malcolm Roberts was receiving a stupid amount of media attention for his absurd climate change conspiracies. I can feel my blood pressure rise and my face redden just writing this. I did send it off somewhere to no...
Balijup Eco Art Retreat
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I was just saying to a friend recently that I have quite a few hats at the moment. One of them is being one part of a team called Sensing Place running Eco-Art retreats.... my role is really just to help with the organisation and do...
The plausibility gap in the denial of climate change science
I had this piece published in the Drum online. This part of the ABC website has been defunded so I've copied the piece here in case it disappears. ~ Â ~ Â ~ For climate change 'sceptics', denialists, contrarians or what Barry Jones recently called 'confusionists' to...