I’ve just got a residency at Footscray Community Arts Centre for the second half of this year. I’ll be residing there one day a week on Thursdays. Pleased that I can dedicate at least one day a week to artistic stuff for a change…I’m working on the 6th draft of Silence at the moment and [...]

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I have been reading “Emotional Alchemy” by Tara Bennett-Goleman (yes married to the Emotional Intelligence guy Daniel Goleman) which is about Buddhism and psychotherapy. It was really inspirational. I found the part 4 where she touches on spiritual matters very resonant with where I am at the moment. She talks about mindfulness and that moment [...]

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I’m having another story published in the upcoming HEAT magazine titled “The Daughters of Au Co”. It is also the title of a short story collection that I’m massaging into shape. Joy of joys my writing group is having a dedicated writing day this Saturday! I’m delighted- the first bit of concentrated creative writing I [...]

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I managed to get another short story “Heroic Mother” to be published in the Griffith Review coming out in November themed “In the neighborhood” - meaning Asia. And at the moment I’m in production for a short seven minute film called “Ma”. Yes there is a mother theme running through all this! ‘Silence” has gotten [...]

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