I have over the last few months been tentatively working on my new website. This combined with the all consuming nature of working on the National Young Writers' Festival in the last few months has resulted in me neglecting this blog, we have grown apart.

I have over the last few months been tentatively working on my new website. This combined with the all consuming nature of working on the National Young Writers' Festival in the last few months has resulted in me neglecting this blog, we have grown apart.

I now have my first ongoing work in Melbourne, which is extremely exciting to me. The job is as one of the Events Assistants at Glen Eira City Council.

This weekend there will be the following workshops and "In Conversation" talks:
Researching for the Writer with Meg Mundell;
Writing For Children with Nicolas Brasch;
In Conversation with Howard Goldenberg; and
In Conversation with Shane Maloney(my fiance David is excited about this one).

The photo above is part of the Carnegie Library building. Spending all of last Sunday there made me curious about whether the suburb's name was related to the philanthropic Carnegie Foundation, here is the answer discovered on the wikipedia article about Carnegie, Victoria.

"Originally called Rosstown, after William Murray Ross, a developer. The name was changed in 1909 to try and distance the suburb from the connotations of failure brought about by Ross' sugar beet mill project which never began production, and the Rosstown Railway. The name Carnegie was chosen in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to secure funds for a library from the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie"

Carnegie just had no luck in the early days apparently. They got their own back almost 100 years later but building an impressive Library and community centre.

Close up.













Passerby has a read.













Additional orange/black band stickers not part of original art. Initially I was annoyed, but on closer inspection they had the cheek(respect?) to place the stickers in the line of vision of the characters on the two occassions they look off into the distance, a very awkward attempt to make like the stickers were part of the story.

I've been working on something big for the last little while and it is getting close to the stage where I will have something to show for it.

I'm one of the co-directors of the 2009 National Young Writers' Festival.

For those of you that don't know about what happens in Newcastle, NSW on the labor day long weekend in October check out the video below. More soon!
National Young Writers Festival
This Is Not Art Festival (the mothership)