At the recent packed annual SCWIBI Queensland Professional Development Workshop, I appreciated Gabrielle Wang sharing her creative process with us. She gave us some inventive and wonderful ideas to improve our work in second drafts and shared her personal story of the importance of perseverance and the value of a mentor and challenge. Do visitContinue reading “Middle Grade Fiction with Gabrielle Wang”
Haystack
Originally posted on Ripple Poetry :
Image: William Delafield Cook A haystack 1982, Courtesy of the Queensland Art Gallery ? Look! Rats and the children run out from their hiding places in the haystack to dance in front of us in a merry line? Who else do you think hides here? Do you have a memory…
Unforgettable – the poetry of memories
Originally posted on Ripple Poetry :
My daughter chatting with Isobelle Carmody after attending the Write Links Mini Fest. Reading a quote from Cathy Freeman at Soul Food, Milton. ? Catching up with friends at a Baha’i history book event. Book Club plans! Hope to start this soon. ? Working on poems at the Queensland Art…
Unity is Strength
Originally posted on Gumbootspearlz Photography:
Image by June Perkins, Ngatu by Ruha Fifita and team “Unity is strength…when there is team work and collaboration wonderful things can be achieved.” -Mattie Stepanek This image is of a ngatu at the beginning of its collaborative journey to have designs placed on it. It will have many people…
What the Worlds needs now . . . writers that care
So the absolute highlight of the Brisbane Writers Festival for me was the talk I attended by Trent Dalton. I saw Trent a few weeks ago on Q and A, on the ABC, as well as Sofie Laguna, and was so impressed by the way they both conducted themselves on the panel I set outContinue reading “What the Worlds needs now . . . writers that care”
June Paisa Perkins 