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The End
Well, it’s been nice. I’ve decided to do the very difficult thing of retiring my blog. The reason for this is that, well, it’s time to grow up a bit. …
Expanding Horizons
We inhabit a world All around us All time Everything changing Renewing Things Transforming Transmuting To one evolving form Giving up essence Literature loves translations fed by every exuberance Every …
Dear Mr Hemingway
Dear Mr Hemingway, We thank you for your submission, and for your service to your country. Our publication is currently not looking for stories based around war as we believe …
Flash Fiction Challenge
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Spilling the beans at Melbourne Fringe Festival LoveKills2017
It’s true. Not all love stories have happy endings. Or beginnings. Or anything that once acquired the elements of ‘fairytale feelings’. Director Noel Anderson combines Melbourne Indie writers (one of …
From The Tower of Song
Dear Leonard, you will continue to sing and speak to us from the Tower of Song but let me just say that I did speak to you before you passed, …
Scone Writers Festival
Courtney Collins said at the Scone Writers Festival that for writers and those alike, what you write must be worth the tree that is cut down and used to print …
Hermann ‘Gangster’ Hesse
I am reading Steppenwolf. A bright orange Penguin version. But the pages are rough and the ‘wolf haunts me and that is how I like it. I’ll be honest, I …
In Love And War
“Take not from the Past its ashes but its fire” – Anon. From ‘Hemingway In Love And War’, Henry S. Villard and James Nagel.
“This is a short book…”
“…because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.” -Stephen King
Writing Is Like Fishing.
“…You have to turn up!”- Paul Kelly, Ubud Writers Festival, 2011
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