Come and relax under the fig tree by the river from 11.00am – 12.00pm
and hear poems by poet and children’s author Dr June Perkins and stories from members of the Brisbane Kiribati community.
Free, no bookings required.
So delighted to receive a short listing for a middle grade fiction story in the Scribbles Creative Writing Awards. June Perkins, Chosen.
A warm congratulations to all winners, short listers, entrants and thank you to the judges for their feedback on my story.
To see the rest of the Hall of Famers and to find out more about Girl and Duck head to website.
A quest for puppets to go with poetry unfolding. . .
I am on a quest to make some puppets for an upcoming storytelling in January! I haven’t made these since my children were little, and then I don’t think I was very ambitious.
Pinterest has been wonderful for inspiration and I have now set up a special pinboard devoted to this topic.
There are so many ways to make puppets! Some are simple, a combination of socks and paper plates.
See more of this work at Ordinary Life Magic
The process for sock puppets is beautifully broken down in this image.
(Image and some great instructions are at Dragons Are Seldom)
Some are absolute works of art. See more of this work at Puppetheap
It is still based on a sock puppet design but it is taken to another level!
This one is just magical, but I can still see some sock puppet influence in it.
But my quest…
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DONATE TO MAGIC FISH DREAMING BOOKS TO PNG (You will be asked to verify you are not a robot first!)
Inspired by a meeting with Gregg Dreise, where we learnt about the Indigenous Literacy Foundation in Australia and their various projects I decided I needed to do something for literacy for my mother’s homeland Papua New Guinea.
I decided to run a non profit book drive to send some copies of Magic Fish Dreaming, via local charities that deliver them, to Papua New Guinea. In this way I hoped to cover my cost price only, and effectively donate the profit on these books to charity.
I wanted to do this so that rather than sending second hand books, that might not be culturally appropriate I could send a brand new book, from my heart to the heart of Papua New Guinea.
I wanted to do something to…
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My last in person tour of Words and Pictures is tomorrow afternoon at 2pm (Saturday 17th November). We will meet and depart from The Gift ( A raft) in the Australia Collection in the Queensland Art Gallery. Please RSVP by gumbootspearlz@gmail.com if you are able to make it.
A mega thank you to the QAGOMA for the opportunity to create the Words and Pictures Spring Season responses. I loved every moment of creating these pieces and then sharing them with the public, as well as my friends, family and writing friends.
Magic Fish Dreaming my poetry book for children, illustrated by Helene Magisson, is stocked in the QAGOMA shops and I will be reading some works from this book, and maybe from the Spring Season, at the Asia Pacific Triennial, Summer program in January, 2019.
I hope one day to develop some books out of the poetry and stories contributed to Words and Pictures and will let you know of my progress here on the blog.
I write; therefore I am.
My thoughts, my words and the story of my life.
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Food for the Heart
RainyReviews is aimed at writing Self-published and Wattpad book reviews. I will be writing my own poetry and short stories. I will also be creating aesthetics.
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