I don’t know where home is.
Poetry slam NSW finals – take two
This will be my last blog for a fortnight or so as I knuckle down to write a new poem. I travelled four hours south to Kempsey last week for the local heat of the Australian Poetry Slam. I couldn’t go in the heat at Byron Bay because I was the feature act after winning last year… and I wasn’t entirely …
Measuring success
Let’s call him ‘Artist One.’ We were chatting a while back about what I considered the success of someone we’ll call ‘Artist Two.’ “Artist Two’s work is amazing,” I said. “Artist Two is winning loads of awards,” I said. “Artist Two has tens of thousands of followers on social media,” I said. Artist One narrowed his eyes. “Yes, but Artist Two drives …
Zanni Louise’s Too Busy Sleeping
Way back when (2013), I was randomly Googling ‘green smoothies’ (it was when they were the ‘new thing’, not the yawn-worthy highly Instagrammed beverage they are now). In some sort of cyber-round-about way, I ended up reading a blog post about a smoothie shop in my home town of Byron Bay called Naked Treaties. That post was written by northern New …
Books that lit up my world as a kid
Happy Children’s Book Week! The theme for this year’s event is Books Light Up Our World… which got me thinking, what were the books that lit up my world as a kid? In no particular order, here are the books that I loved as a child and will cherish forever:
Ch ch ch ch ch changes
You may have noticed this blog has had a name change. It had been appearing under the banner ‘Anti-Princess Mama,’ but I decided that label was a little limiting. While, yes, I’m not exactly into supporting the princess machine (OK that’s an understatement), it’s such a small part of my make-up and I want to write about more than that one topic. We can’t …
Byron Bay Writers Festival
You know what’s difficult? Adjusting to reality after something like the Byron Bay Writers Festival. I had a pretty magical time there last Friday to Sunday. It also involved quite a bit of hat-changing.
Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival
I’m in love with Bellingen.