Excited to have this published on ABC Arts today. What a joy to be able to recommend some of the great books released in 2024. My biggest problem was, predictably, whittling it down to this list. Give the gift of engaging stories, books that will be fun to read with…
Read MoreI have returned from National Young Writers’ Festival 2023, proud as punch of what our team put together. I was one of three board members able to attend the festival in person. Here we are pictured above (Lex Hirst, myself and Michael Daley), having a blast at Newcastle Library where…
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 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 MoreFrom fine amnesties, to boosting the prominence of digital offerings, to simply putting books in the post, libraries have drastically changed the way they operate to accommodate the massive social changes imposed by governments during the pandemic, often with heartwarming results. Today The Guardian published When Covid closed the library:…
Read MoreEpisode Five of In the Good Books is available to download now. It was a tricky one! You can find a list of all the titles we discussed on this episode, plus more information about the podcast, on the YPRL website.
Read MoreEpisode Four is now ready for you to listen to! I felt extra responsibility to get this particular set of recommendations right because our listener, Tania, was looking for crime and thrillers. We all know how many of these I read, so I really wanted to find Tania the perfect…
Read MoreA new episode of our podcast is out now in all the usual places (including Apple iTunes, Spotify, Podbean, Podtail). I’m particularly pleased with this episode, we got a lot out of it. You know you’re having fun with a podcast when the editing takes a really long time because…
Read MoreAnother episode of the podcast for you! As always, you can head over to the YPRL website to see the full information on the episode, including a list of all the books we discussed in the episode.
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