by Nicole | 15 May, 2018 | Blog, Writing
I recently listened to an inspiring interview with Kimberley Chambers, marathon ocean swimmer extraordinaire, only the sixth person ever to complete the Ocean’s Seven set of insane marathon swims. Closer to home, my swimming buddy Steve Junk has completed six of the...
by Nicole | 30 Mar, 2018 | Blog, Creativity, Writing
I wrote an essay about researching the life of Sarah Brooks and the insights from being out in the disarming landscape east of Esperance. It is now published in the Landscapes journal. ~ I am on the trail of a ghost, the ghost of Miss Sarah Brooks, who died almost one...
by Nicole | 15 Feb, 2018 | Creativity, Writing
I’m on the wrong side of 45 and I want my life to take a different turn. A turn towards writing, and if I’m lucky, being published. I don’t understand what took me so long to get here. Writing is something I have always wanted to do, but I...
by Nicole | 3 Sep, 2017 | Writing
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...
by Nicole | 17 Aug, 2017 | Creativity, Writing
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 friend of Tim...
by Nicole | 14 Aug, 2017 | Family, Writing
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...
