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Highly Commended Haiku

The Haiku on Hay Poetry Competition was run by the City of Perth Library in conjunction with the 2024 Perth Poetry Festival. I was thrilled to be awarded a Highly Commended Certificate for my haiku:
1 Sep 2024 1 min read Haiku

Haiku

It’s a little while since this was published but I remain delighted to be included with so many delightful and thought-provoking haiku in the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology. It’s been sitting on my bedside table for some time and I’ve never regretted picking it up and opening a page at random.
9 Dec 2023 1 min read Haiku

March Wins

My goal is to submit at least one piece every month. In March, I submitted three tiny stories (two drabbles and a seven-word story), a piece of creative non finction (CNF) and a poem.
29 Mar 2023 2 min read Writing

Retreat

I’ve just returned home from a wonderful Writers’ Retreat run by the [Society of Women Writers Western Australia] (https://www.swwofwa.com.au/). I’ve been a member for some years now, and this is the third retreat that I’ve been on.
24 Mar 2023 1 min read SWWWA

Suffocation

I’ve been trying to submit at least one story a month, and I submitted “Suffocation” to 50-Word Stories on the 3rd of March. I’d forgotten and was messing around editing it, got distracted and started browsing 50-Word Stories - there are such fabulous stories there and all in only 50 words!
24 Mar 2023 1 min read Dribble, Flash fiction

Story of the Week

Oh, how wonderful to wake on a Monday morning and find this in my feed! “A Halloween Tale” was selected as story of the week at 50-Word Stories
6 Nov 2022 1 min read Micro, Dribble

A Halloween Tale

My take on A Halloween Tale
31 Oct 2022 1 min read Micro, Dribble

Flow

Over ten years ago, I wrote a deeply honest and personal poem about the feelings and emotions around motherhood that my monthly cycle aroused. I still don’t have children.
26 Sep 2022 1 min read Poetry

This Writing Life

I’m reading ‘This Writing Life’ by Annie Dillard. She writes: Graham Greene noticed that since a novel “takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man at the end of the book as he was at the beginning…as though [the novel] were something he had begun in childhood and was finishing now in old age.
27 Aug 2022 2 min read Blog

A murder on the wing

I love this little story published today on 50-Word Stories. I’ve been writing a daily story on Twitter using prompts from @vssdaily. Since 15 May 2022, I’ve written 79 very short stories.
1 Aug 2022 1 min read Microfiction, Dribble, 50-Words