I never expected that my first trip back to Papua New Guinea, since I moved to Australia as a one year old, would be in my fifties and via zoom and would be working with writers based in three different countries. Yet, none of us knows our future, and so it was that the lastContinue reading “Returning to Motherland 1#”
Category Archives: creative writing for kids
Words and Pictures Reviewed by Renee Hills
Review of June Perkins’s Words and Pictures Tour (Queensland Art Gallery, Sept-November 2018) French artist Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917) famously said ‘Art is not what you see, but what you make others see’. This was truly my experience when I joined June Perkins’s tour of Words & Pictures. June’s interactive journey through the AustralianContinue reading “Words and Pictures Reviewed by Renee Hills”
Submissions Week
This was a watershed week of submissions for me. I have spent most of the year reworking and editing a number of promising writing pieces, and working out whether some earlier projects are short stories, picture books or novels. Sometimes I don’t know in the early drafts what the final form will be. Each pieceContinue reading “Submissions Week”
Gregg Dreise Presents
It was a wonderfully dynamic, interactive, educational and personal guest presentation by Gregg Dreise, an award winning illustrator and writer of books like Silly Birds and Mad Magpie, at the recent Book Links AGM at the State Library of Queensland. Gregg is a descendant of the Kamilaroi tribe, from south-west Queensland and north-west New South Wales.Continue reading “Gregg Dreise Presents”
Beckoning Autumn
Originally posted on Magic Fish Dreaming:
Collin Key Flickr Woman walking with her dog through an autumn landscape Come burnt orange golden yellow and burnished red leaves. ? Bring us relief from heat waves and air conditioners. ? Remember my light red jumper and favourite boots They’re out once more. ? Loosen your leaves to…
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