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Crowd fundraising to self-publish my poetry book We all have a dream and mine has always been to write a book, and get it published. I had planned to get this done by the time I was 30, but life got in the way. Recently I sent a children’s book I’d written to literary agents Curtis Brown and was...

Now entering its eleventh year, Short+Sweet Sydney is the biggest festival of ten minute theatre in the world! This year I didn’t make it into the Sydney Top 100 but got a spot in the Wildcards with my play “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, which won People’s Choice in Crash Test Drama back...

or How one press release created a media frenzy A few weeks ago, I bumped into my friend Simone who was in a bit of a flap. She’d recently performed her Burlesque Fitness routine at Avoca Markets hoping to promote her tongue-in-cheek fitness routines to a new audience. Sadly, after the event the organisers,...

Best Drama Award! At Brisbane Short and Sweet Festival I’m really rather happy that my short play ‘Sock’ took the ‘Best Drama’ award at this years Brisbane Short and Sweet Festival. After years plugging away at Short and Sweet, I’ve finally bloody won something!! The play was directed by...

INTIMATELY MOVING – from 5th November 2011 at The Pad Play With Your Shorts presents. A weekly series of five short plays presented as moved readings, written by Australian contemporary playwrights, all of different themes and genres, entitled: Stick that in your pad and play it. This unique theatre...

They say the best things in life are free and this couldn’t be more true than with these excellent Short+Sweet workshops. Budding actors, writers and directors can register to attend a series of fabulous workshops given by people in the know! Wish I could attend.   Free Workshops Short+Sweet...

I was just sent a press release from Woollahra Municipal Council about the upcoming Woollahra Local Writer’s Word Festival, so thought I’d share it with you all.   The Woollahra Local Writer’s Word Festival is opening its first chapter for 2011, by calling for entries from authors...