You know those times when something just sticks in your head and won't get out until you write it - though you should be working on something else.

Think this is the fastest acceptance I've ever had.
(maybe they'll bring their friends)

Wishing y'all a decent day xx

#writinglife

Longlisted!
Congratulations to all those shortlisted for the #Commonwealthshortstoryprize
#cwwp

I'm thrilled.

My story is set in a dystopian (is it?) future where it's illegal to not smile or have pets.
It's about opression, betrayal and resistance!

March 30th.

Writers on how living in the West contributes to our writing.

I'll be talking about the well of ideas that is the Coin Laundry.

Feat. Alice Pung, Jinghua Qian, Sam Elkin, Rijn Collins, and Emilie Collyer.

Check out the full program!

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Baby's first writers festival!

Check out this amazing new festival!

Alice Pung, Thuy On, Sam Elkin, Rijn Collins, Helen Garner and many more.

I'm very excited to be one of the closing night readers!

#writingcommunity

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Very thankful for my time at KSP Writers Centre!

I've tried to summarise what I was thinking about while there.
Plus, my best top ten writing tips. (been thinking about those for years!)

www.kspwriterscentre.com/single-post/...

#writingcommunity

🥰😍❤

New email in my inbox and thought no, I'm too unwell to get another rejection (a virus) but ...

Anyway, it will be up soon. I'm happy because in Jan 2025 I will have two pieces out and that's as many as I got in all of 2024.

Wishing lots of stories this coming year for everyone!

#writingcommunity

Caught up with my writer bestie, Katelin Farnsworth outside Paperback Bookshop
Snapped up a copy of @dani-netherclift.bsky.social Vessel!

#books

Dorothy Porter (legend!) The monkey's mask.

'oh, Chris, I feel like blubbering,
I'm nearly forty
I'm in love again
I'm tracking a stranger
I'm reading poetry
I'm getting so sensitive
I'm an allergy on legs.'

#poetrycommunity
#poems

Congratulations to all the winners of the KSP short fic comp.
I was excited about this because I love these nuns!
And I have a novel idea in story cycles for them (up next)
(They're also actually very funny!)

#writingcommunity

From Richard Powers Playground
Which Māui - whether the Hawaiian, the Tahitian, the Māorian, the Samoan etc

- surely this should just be Māori???

Also this is a terrible sentence

I love RP but quite a few things not right at the beginning of this book

Geese going for a gander. I asked where they were going but they remained tight beaked.

Perth is so
bright and
clean. Full of
tourists, pigeons and
possibility

This poem has been
written in
the toilet.

#poetry
#Perth

Image: arched white bridge over water, shiny skyscrapers in background

A Sort of a Song

Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.

—through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.

- WCW

Arrived at KSP Fellowship.
So utterly peaceful.

Three crows had a beak to beak outside my window then one flew north, one south, and the last east.

Watching for their return.

Editing and reading, a bit here, a cookie and chocolate milk, a bit there.