The writer laid bare

During the writing of my new tragicomic novel, Never Look Desperate, I took the first draft of my completed manuscript away for a dirty weekend. To love it again and rediscover the connection. We stayed in a hotel with …

I began thinking about my fourth novel, Resistance – a novel about the craziness and steadfastness of family life – when I was undertaking a Masters in Family Therapy. Early in our training, we, the students, watched from behind a …

My latest book, When Ghosts Call Us Home, is a novel about being haunted by memory and possessed by art. It’s also about complicated families and an unravelling bond between two sisters. I used there literary devices – embedded …

For about two years, at the peak of my pursuit of publication, I received approximately 10 rejection emails daily from both Australian and international journals.

Months of relentless submissions had thickened my skin, making it tougher than a rhino’s and …

A year ago, I was a digital poet, freelance arts consultant and self-published writer. I had also been helping make other writers’ dreams come true for more than a decade, as a writing tutor, editor and former Director of Writers …

Reading has been essential to my development as a writer. I don’t just read as a reader, but always, invariably, I also read as a working writer. I’ve taught myself this way of reading through years of writing. Reading is …