It’s been a year of big changes at Express Media. We’ve said goodbye to former General Manager Joe Toohey, who employed me in my role here, and hello to Steve Lamattina who has taken on the role. It’s been a pretty intense period in our offices as we were without a GM for a while during the transition, but I think we’re going to get through it all okay.

Our Innovation Prize has happened as have National Young Writers’ Month and Write Across Victoria and our 6x6x6 events. I’m now in the thick of judging John Marsden Prize and our newest addition to the Express family, the Scribe Prize for Non fiction. As with every year, the standard of entries to our competition is astounding. There is such a wealth of talent on offer.

So let’s push through to the end of the year, shall we? Send it off with a bang. Yes.