“June Perkins is a writer and multi-arts-creative of Papua New Guinean and Australian background now living in Brisbane. She published photography, documentary, and stories with ABC Open between 2011-15 and has a PhD in writing empowerments.
She is a university writing tutor, blogger and crowd funded Magic Fish Dreaming, publishing it with her own press, Gumbootspearlz Press. In 2016 June won an ASA writing mentorship for picture books and is now pitching work.
However, Gumbootspearlz Press is building partnerships with others to create storytelling and arts projects to foster unity in diversity, optimism, peace and opportunities for youth and has great potential to be developed further.”
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At Boonah – Sunrise by June Perkins 
I don’t know how many times I have heard people say, ‘Being a poet won’t pay the bills,’ and ‘Writers have a tough life. Why are you doing this…
