Here are the dates and events I’ll be appearing in at the Melbourne Writers Festival Schools Program

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I collected these pieces of Nature from my garden yesterday. Autumn always reminds me of my childhood – the smell of burning leaves, the sound of crackling and crunching underfoot, the fresh misty mornings.

Here is a bit of the interview I did with Marjorie Coughlin. 

Interview with author and illustrator Gabrielle Wang

After she left school, Australian author Gabrielle Wang studied and worked in Graphic Design before deciding to delve deeper into her Chinese heritage, which led her to study Chinese painting and calligraphy in Taiwan. She lived there for five years and then moved to China Read the rest of this entry »

I have written seven novels but I think The Wishbird  is my best so far. Still, I don’t want to jinx myself by saying that. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes while I’m busy writing and being distracted by other things, I turn around and find these curious little drawings on my desk.

It must be time for a doggie walk.

I bought a new bicycle. It reminds me of when I was young.

It smells of clinkers, sherbert bombs, snakes and honey bears, Read the rest of this entry »

When I was studying Chinese painting in China I spent most of those years copying, stroke for stroke the paintings of the old masters. What I thought in the beginning would be tedious and boring, quickly turned into study on a much much deeper level, profound in many ways. Read the rest of this entry »

Hairy birds, Missoni birds, Batman birds, chicken pox birds, holey birds and stripey birds.

Thirty years ago psychotherapist and author Pat Williams, asked a number of high achievers if there had been any stories that were their favourites in childhood. Read the rest of this entry »

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