I woke up this morning to the best news ever! My poem, empty nest, has been shortlisted for the 2022 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing in the Open Poetry section! The other poets shortlisted for the prize this year are Judith Bishop, Gayelene Carbis, Yaron Fisher, Helen Hopcroft, Susanne Kennedy,... Read more →

I am feeling a real shift in my energies in the last couple of weeks. After having crashed and burned in January, I'm rising from the ashes ready to fashion a new self. But who will I be? Okay, that's a tad dramatic. Perhaps it's more about fashioning a new... Read more →

Image Credit: TextaQueen It's been a big year of w... Read more →

I have been trying to push my craft to see how good I can make my writing. It's why I do workshops all the time. I feel like an eternal student - always curious, always learning. At the end of last year I completed the Poetics of Reticence class with... Read more →

My poem, A Good Listener, about climate change and suburban gardens has been accepted for publication! I am so glad that this poem found a home and that editor Joan Fenney of The Crow saw something in it worthy of publication. I've sent this poem off to many journals and... Read more →

I’m super happy to have six of my poems featured in issue 32 of the free online Australian journal Rochford Street Review. The journal is edited by Mark Roberts and Linda Adair and they do a fantastic job of bringing together a wonderful publication. In this issue you can find... Read more →

I am stoked to be part of the awesome zine, More Than Melanin, featuring a whole stack of incredible female BIPOC authors and artists from around the world. Edited by the wonderful Kanika Chopra, Issue 2: Intimacy in Solitude feature my poem, Shelter. The zine looks amazing and is on... Read more →

It flies in from South Australia and lands in my letterbox. This small, elegant journal of twenty pages. Lovingly edited and curated by Joan Fenney it is a delight to read. And I am delighted to say that my poem, Nana's Kitchen is one of the poems in the June... Read more →

It's funny the the things I worry about. Obviously there's the major things like climate change and global warming. Widespsread poverty and inequality. Violence against women. Discrimination against people of colour. But those things are so big that most of the time I squish them up and hide them under... Read more →

Isn't it funny how last week I was posting about all the rejections I've amassed from literary journals over the last couple of years and then this week, for the first time, I received more acceptances from journals than rejections (2 to 1). When I got the now inevitable rejection... Read more →