Abbe and I chugged down the freeway recently, to the State Theatre, to see the Bell Shakespeare production of School for Wives – which was…
A crowd of us went to the WA State Art Gallery on Friday to see the ‘Picasso to Warhol’ exhibition which was excellent. The works…
My overarching impression of the Cossack township is of space: both the small clutch of scattered buildings and their surroundings allowing limitless vistas and endless…
I guess you know you’re getting old when the National Library of Australia decides to preserve you. Well, according to the State Library I have been selected…
Abbe and I are off to Cossack, WA in the middle of June to conduct a weekend ‘Travel Writing and Photography Course.’ Neither of us…
I have a great creative writing course coming up on Saturday 12th at UWA Extension:it’s about Exposition, the art of showing events in your story…
A great day last Wednesday taking the Writing for Clarity and Impact course at OSDS, part of UWA. There was a full complement of twenty…
This is a full-day session I conduct for UWA Extension which shows, among other things, how the writer can play with time and scene sequence…
I had a great time at the Perth Writers’ Festival (PWF) on the UWA campus this last weekend. Apart form the wonderful opportunity to spend…
Now I’m one of the tribe
On page seventeen of the Inquirer section in last week’s The Weekend Australian was a good piece by Bernard Salt, the Social Editor (does that mean…