Here’s a confession. Whenever friends or family ask me what I’ve been up to, I lie. It’s usually a white lie, like I strung up all of Little James’ Pokemon cuddlies to the roof of the trampoline and faked their kidnapping [...]
Little James had to write a letter to Santa in his prep class and then post the letter into the 'classroom post box express to the North Pole'. I figured this was something all kids had to do in school, and [...]
Another chance to show off the beautiful map of Fairyside made by my dear friends Andi Spark and Paul Cleveland. I'm very proud that my book baby made it on to the shortlist for The Times/ Chicken House competition. [...]
At the end of last year, I quit my day job, and then turned my night job as a writer into my day job while I was looking for a new day job, which resulted in a temporary gap in my [...]
I’ve been wanting to write a post with ‘butt’ in the title for quite some time, frankly so I can increase my audience reach and see more interesting mail come through my spam folder. When I found out my creative friends [...]
I met Emily Sun three years ago at the Deborah Cass Writing Awards. We’d both been shortlisted for the migrant writing competition. On a whim, I’d flown down to Melbourne to attend the ceremony. I knew no one and stood awkwardly [...]
Crone, Mother, Child by Niamh Moriarty The Hag, the Crone, the Crazy Cat Lady I have a confession to make. For the past few years now, I’ve been stocking up on cat food. I’ve driven past billboards of dream [...]
One morning, I woke up and saw these weird drawings of llamas on my bedside table. My first thought was that Little James had made me a card, then I realised the pictures were in my wobbly, middle-of-the-night handwriting. Slowly, the [...]
Spring is here tra-la-la! For our family, this means breaking out the communal Zyrtec, taking indulgent walks along jacaranda lanes. October is also when I finish my teaching contracts at uni and have three solid months of writing time. I’ve been [...]
