Goal setting: competitive vs collaborative
Grappling with the disappointment on not making the Adelaide Literature Awards shortlist, I ask if the creative process is essentially a competitive process or a collaborative...
My evolving Asian and Oz Christmas traditions
Christmas in West Malaysia 1970s Christmas is a public holiday. I don’t have to go to school. The street is quiet. I wonder how I might celebrate. It is suggested that I...
Terri on the move
Last Wednesday, Terri manoeuvred her motorised wheelchair into Kathleen’s lounge room. Terri is one of the project managers for MY disABILITIES and had put me in touch...
Acquiescent or assertive
Feature picture by Klein. August 2014, Salisbury Writers Festival, Adelaide For a towering figure of Australian literature, John Marsden is looking rather grey, his leg...
The Golden Hour Book Review
The Golden Hour by Claire Belberg Stone Table Books. Melbourne, 2017. RRP $17.95 30 Nov 2017 Three people, one room, no windows and the question: why are we here? In...
Don’t let headlines kill the welcome
In The Australian last weekend, journalist Paige Taylor described the gradual hardening of her heart. She wrote of baby Abul flushed from a baby-carrier strapped to his mother...