Thank you to all who participated in, created, taught, volunteered, interviewed and conversed at Newcastle Writer’s Festival, Margaret River Writer’s Festival, Sydney Writer’s Festival, The Island Readers and Writers Festival, Canberra Writers Festival, Words on the Waves and more… It was such a delight to be part of festivals and events across Australia this year discussing the writing life and A Great Act of Love and Nothing Bad Ever Happens Ever Happens Here, and also teaching keen writers at several festival workshops.
The main pic was taken during Words on the Waves 2026 and features the fearless and delightful Louise Milligan and the eternally wonderful Bryan Brown. Read their books! Thank you again all the readers who came along and all the fellow writers who make this Australian writing community such a joy. It’s a wrap for events this year … thank you all for the love of literature, imagination, creativity and reading. I’m now off to write the next novel.
This sculpture is the work of Robert Indiana – 1928 – 2018 – titled ‘Love’ photographed by Heather Rose at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2026.
