Saturday 13th October was the launch of the 2024 ZineWest anthology. It also coincided with Love Your Bookshop Day here in Australia. Whilst winning second place in a beauty contest and collectin...
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I wanted to go behind the scenes to my award-winning short story, Crowd Surfing (First Place in the 2024 Stringybark Short Story Award), particularly the music that I was listening to in the edit...
https://afullnessinbrevity.wordpress.com/2024/10/07/crowd-surfing-circles-on-circles/
As an artist, you never know where your work will end up.I did this #ContinuousLineDrawing of a kickflip as something fun (even though I can’t skate but I do own a skateboard). A musician reach...
A little earlier this year I announced that my short story, A Shoebox of Changes, had been sold to The School Magazine. This week my contributor copies arrived, and I was eager to see the story i...
Last week I had the great success of a creative writing WIN! I won First Place in the Stringybark Short Story Award 2024. Crowd Surfing is about the search for healing in the middle of grief. A m...
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Author’s Note: Sometimes a random reading will lead to random inspiration and a random result. I like this way. Create an imaginary friend. Find a newsagent and buy a postcard. Send it to them....
https://afullnessinbrevity.wordpress.com/2024/02/29/the-dead-letter-office-a-pome/
It is always lovely to announce when a new story is live for you to read. My new story, The Overripe Plum, is about a son at his father’s funeral and explores the chasm of masculinity between t...
https://afullnessinbrevity.wordpress.com/2024/01/16/new-story-the-overripe-plum/
Here at The Drum and Page, the new year begins with a new word to help give the upcoming months purpose and direction.This year I’ve gone with a phrase: labore et constantia (labour and tenacit...
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AdventA waiting…an anticipation…about hope, of hope, and for hopefor our success, our health, our dreams and visionsa pregnant waiting and pausebelieving for the fulfilmentto hold that one th...
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*GOOD NEWS KLAXON*I attended the Blacktown Mayoral Creative Writing Prize ceremony last night and came away with the chocolates (an Antipodean way of saying I won) for short story in the adult ca...
https://afullnessinbrevity.wordpress.com/2023/12/15/blacktown-mayoral-creative-writing-prize-win/