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The Extreme Pleasure of Being Salvador Dali

I meant to post this a while back. It is the monologue I read (performed?) in Nova Scotia earlier this year. After dithering about what to read, I stumbled across a wonderful photograph of Dali in the old Church we were staying at and decided it was a sign. In fact, I used the picture […]

Art, Stories and Poetry in Nova Scotia

As my time in beautiful Parrsboro comes to a close, I’ll give a brief wrap-up. In addition to the poetry events mentioned in my last post, I had a wonderful workshop morning with a group of local writers. I already knew that Canada produces some exceptional writers; now I know that a lot of them […]

Alice in Iceland

This photo I took at Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon last year goes perfectly with my story Alice … Incomplete, originally published in Forty South’s 2017 Tasmanian Writers Prize Anthology. Here’s the full story. Alice Incomplete As you can tell, Alice … Incomplete, pays homage to Charles Blackman’s painting, The Blue Alice. If you’d like to read […]

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