Mark’s poetry and lyrical prose return to mind so often. I am grateful for the long conversations we have had that formed this interview published by Dumbo Feather I first met Mark Tredinnick’s work through The Little Red Writing Book––recommended by a teacher I loved. Within the opening pages I was hooked. I read the […]
Andrew Hamilton is consulting editor at Eureka Street and has written a review of my new collection, Tender, stories that lean into kindness. I feel honoured by his reading and placement of the book within a larger tradition. You can go to the review here.
‘Tender’ reviewed. Author happy. Read More »
I can’t quite believe I got to be a part of this project, but like magic Shannyn Higgins appeared and invited me in. It’s a blind date, 25 writers provide a fragment of writing, 25 artists respond. On Opening Night Friday August 30, 6 – 9pm the exhibition is unveiled at KSR Art Bar, Rialto
Duality – a blind date between writers and artists. Read More »
“a system of meaning that doesn’t begin and end with humans.”
The Overstory by Richard Powers Read More »
“Probably people know the room is going to be discussing something of division. Presumably people have a predictable set of outcomes in their mind. “I bet you this group or this person will say the following thing.” And they might even have their responses primed and prepared for the thing that they’re predicting. I’m always interested in how we find the courage in the room for something unexpected and surprising to be said.” Pádraig Ó Tuama
Conversations in conflicted times Read More »
When you’ve listened to a story with anticipation, there’s a kind of deflation if you’re told what to think about it.
Leaving space to find meaning Read More »
I wrote this piece after hearing Leigh Sales interviewed at Adelaide Writers Week last month. I loved her book, ‘Any Ordinary Day’ and was captured again by the way she spoke it. Most of all the surprising impact a Jesuit priest called Steve Sinn had on her understanding of the task of ‘accompanying’. Sales had
Accompanying – a new story in Eureka Street Read More »
I’m so delighted to know this wonderful human, pictured here at a house concert early this year. You can listen Pádraig here on the On Being podcast. In a few weeks he will be in Melbourne again, at Sacred Edge in Queenscliff May 3-5, doing storytelling seminar and workshop at the Centre for Theology and
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