The story so far
I'm from Adelaide, but I'm living in Abu Dhabi right now. One day, I saw a gold leaf four wheel drive. It made me cry.
My first novel, Black Dust Dancing, was published by Wakefield Press in March 2009. It looks like this:
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Silence is preferable
I would like to be the kind of person living the kind of life which, rendered in fiction, would begin:
She entered the day armed with nothing more than the memory of a kiss, Continue reading
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My two cents
Whatever else the announcement of the Miles Franklin shortlist tells us, it also reminds us of our mortality. Of our own mortality and of that of the world we inhabit. Continue reading
The weekend
At work this morning they asked me, ‘What did you do on the weekend?’ and, after the moment it took me to remember back to the time before I turned into the street and then the gate and parked downstairs, I said, ‘I wrote ten thousand words.’ Continue reading
Still settling in
I blog for the same reason I write or read everything else that I write or read. To try and make sense of it all. To find meaning, to learn what sense others have already learned, what meaning they’ve already found. I blog to make new friends, to keep old ones, to laugh, to weep…same reasons I do most of the things that I do I guess. Continue reading
Oh good, you found me
Welcome to my new website.
Viv made it. Most of you probably know Viv aka tigtog. She blogs at hoyden about town, and you can ask her if want to make your website more vivid. Continue reading
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At the Statue of David
a man and a woman and a man and another one and another woman each with cameras around their necks and the lens caps on speaking in voices loud, soft, hushed, disbelieving never dismissive Continue reading
