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Well, this was fun -- an interview with The Nerd Daily to promote Meet Me at Lennon's, which officially births onto shelves in three days...

July 11, 2019 I attended my first BWF in 2009, just after I moved back to Queensland from Sydney, where I'd been living for the last five...

October 26, 2018 Winner winner tofu dinner. I won't say this is beyond my wildest dreams because it's been my 'dream' to win this award...

September 12, 2018 So this is nice. Third place in the Estelle Pinney Short Story Competition. It's nice for a couple of reasons:...

September 4, 2018 It would be remiss of me not to mention, also, that my very clever daughter Katerina Gibson is the winner of the 2018...

August 31, 2018 There's nothing quite like a shortlist to get a much needed hit of writerly validation. And it doesn't get much better...

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Published by Picador 2013 (Review first published July, 2013) When a debut novel comes as lauded as Burial...

Reunion by Andrea Goldsmith* Published by HarperCollins 2009 (Review first published March, 2010) Four friends – Ava, Jack, Helen and...

Get Well Soon! by Kristy Chambers Published UQP 2012 (Review first published February, 2013) When I had surgery last year to remove some...

Murdering Stepmothers by Anna Haebich Published UWA Press, 2010 (Review first published July, 2010) Long before Disney cashed in on her...

Photo credit: Courier-Mail November 27, 1942, p. 2 (Cartoonist: Ian Gill) November 24, 2017 The Battle of Brisbane may be a strange thing...

January 26, 2016 My academic article about Maureen C. Meadows and her 1948 semi-fictionalised memoir I Loved those Yanks has been...

September 2, 2015 Last night I had the privilege and pleasure of hosting an in conversation with Australian literary giant Kate Grenville...

April 2104 It wasn’t a full house, far from it, but QTC’s latest main stage production Brisbane—a commissioned work by local playwright...

August 16, 2011 Among amateur theatre companies Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is something of a staple – the Brisbane Arts Theatre, for example,...

May, 2015 And that’s a wrap. Cruise Control pulled up anchor last night after 14 sold out performances at the Noosa Arts Theatre. It’s...

July 2015 After finishing Cruise Control, I was given the opportunity to direct one of the three finalist-plays chosen for the Noosa Arts...

October, 2017 Here's a review of Muse -- in which I played the put-upon-wife Gemma -- by Xanthe Coward (XS Entertainment)... Muse is the...

October 18, 2016 We (my partner and I) saw La Boite’s 2016 production of Streetcar the night after opening, which I think is a better...