The 42nd ALEA Meanjin – Brisbane area – Australian Literacy Educators’ Association Young Writers’ Festival (for students from Years 5 to 10) is being held on Thursday 4 July at Griffith University Mt Gravatt Campus. Featuring a Keynote from Morris Gleitzman and four workshops with a wonderful line up of authors, poets and illustrators –Continue reading “ALEA – Meanjin 42nd Writer’s Festival”
Spooktacular Stories: Thrilling Tales for Brave kids
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Headstone crying – By June Perkins I am thrilled to be included in Spooktacular Stories: Thrilling Tales for Brave kids, with one poem and one short story! All the very best to all anthology contributors. We have lift off in OCTOBER! Thanks to Share My Story. ? Congratulations to: Amira…
Behind Curtains
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‘There’s no perfect life. There’s always something going on behind the curtain that people don’t know about.’ Madelaine Petsch ( Read more at: Brainy Quote ) Behind curtains memory eye lids open and shut portals between loss longing for time’s healing. Yesterday’s grief buzzes in through the window suffering gives wings…
Happiness is like . . .
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“Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed.” Rajneesh “Sadness for each blossom lost/ happiness for each one celebrated/ Beauty will return.” -June Perkins, poem Above is my contribution to nineteen months…
Ink of Light Team: Thank you!
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Ink of Light Taskforce Planning Team 2019 The Ink of Light Baha’i Writers Festival was ‘soul stirring’, ‘uplifting’ ‘surprising’, and immensely attractive to readers and people who do not write and creatives from music, and art, as well as being full of participants of all ages. So brilliant to see…
