At the end of last year, I quit my day job, and then turned my night job as a writer into my day job while I was looking for a new day job, which resulted in a temporary gap in my [...]

I’ve been wanting to write a post with ‘butt’ in the title for quite some time, frankly so I can increase my audience reach and see more interesting mail come through my spam folder. When I found out my creative friends [...]

I met Emily Sun three years ago at the Deborah Cass Writing Awards. We’d both been shortlisted for the migrant writing competition. On a whim, I’d flown down to Melbourne to attend the ceremony. I knew no one and stood awkwardly [...]

Crone, Mother, Child by Niamh Moriarty The Hag, the Crone, the Crazy Cat Lady I have a confession to make. For the past few years now, I’ve been stocking up on cat food. I’ve driven past billboards of dream [...]

One morning, I woke up and saw these weird drawings of llamas on my bedside table. My first thought was that Little James had made me a card, then I realised the pictures were in my wobbly, middle-of-the-night handwriting.  Slowly, the [...]

Spring is here tra-la-la! For our family, this means breaking out the communal Zyrtec, taking indulgent walks along jacaranda lanes. October is also when I finish my teaching contracts at uni and have three solid months of writing time.  I’ve been [...]