As I brewed the last leaves of a beautiful batch of Kolipari Summer Gold tea tonight before settling in to start a book I have been looking forward to starting, I noticed how beautifully the pale golden tea complimented the saturated yellow on the cover of André Dao’s Anam. Both…
Read MoreI’m pleased to be reviewing MICF shows for The Age this year. I first started reviewing MICF in the early 2000s for street press such as Beat magazine and in the years since have published literally hundreds of reviews in newspapers, online publications, zines, and radio programs. Comedy, with its…
Read MoreWe took the cutest little mobile bookstore in town to Clunes Booktown Festival last weekend and it was epic. We sold over half our stock, met tonnes of lovely booklovers, authors and booksellers. What a terrific event the team at Creative Clunes put together. Books barely made it onto the…
Read MoreI was proud to be a part of the M/other event at the Wheeler Centre. The whole weekend was a dream program with so many amazing people discussing the politics of motherhood and parenting. I cannot recommend enough that you watch the sessions once they are up online on the…
Read MoreAfter a long stint as a freelance producer and writer, I’m pleased to be taking on a role at Arts Access Victoria starting this month. I first worked with AAV in my role delivering Meeting Place, a three-day forum on access and disability arts which took place as part of…
Read MoreBack in the early 00s, I was fortunate enough to attend iconic arts event This is Not Art, an umbrella festival that included the National Young Writers’ Festival and National Student Media Conference. I fell in love with this exuberant, chaotic weekend in Newcastle that blended artforms and encouraged cross-pollination…
Read MoreBook & tea pairing: Royal Keemun Mao Feng with Michael Winkler’s Grimmish Today’s pairing is a bold, robust black tea to fortify you at any time of day. With smoky, tobacco notes this blend evokes the early 1900s boxing halls and back room bars of Grimmish, a story about a…
Read MoreThe only thing better than getting books in the mail is getting surprise books in the mail. Our Bookmail service puts all my years working in bookstores, libraries, literary events, writing organisations and obsessively reading to work finding the ideal books to add to your TBR or that of a…
Read MoreI write about being a disabled person, artist and parent. It’s rare, though, that I get to work as a disabled producer putting together an event about disability and for the disabiity arts community. In producing Meeting Place I have finally been able to do this. Meeting Place is Australia’s…
Read MoreI’m glad to have another opportunity to talk about the unique situation disabled people face as we tackle climate change. I’ll be speaking at this event as part of the Greater Dandenong Sustainability Festival and Libraries After Dark at Springvale Library. Climate change is happening now, and it affects everyone,…
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