Miss Kiki’s last day of school
School’s out and I’ve just finished my first year at Milpera State High School for refugee and migrant children. Unlike some of the kids who came to do my ..
read moreSchool’s out and I’ve just finished my first year at Milpera State High School for refugee and migrant children. Unlike some of the kids who came to do my ..
read moreI’m back from a social media-free week and boy was it wonderful. It was both freeing and humbling. This from the person who didn’t have a TV for years and ..
read moreIs your creative soul feeling a bit blah? Do you want a boost? What you need is an infusion of the Verandah ChiX. Blah is exactly how I’d been feeling before ..
read moreOne of the things I often wonder is whether writers and artists burn out faster than, say, an engineer or an accountant or other types of less arty jobs? I ..
read moreIt’s my third term at Milpera, the state school for refugee and migrant children here in Brisbane, and things are always changing. Every term new children ..
read morePart of what I love about my weekly visits to the refugee and migrant children at Milpera State School is that I never know who will come to my creative writing ..
read moreI didn’t enjoy high school the first time round in the 1980s. I hid myself away under what I thought was a dramatic punk-chic haircut, my musical ability and ..
read moreAfter almost six months of discovery, proposals, meetings and learning, I’ve done it. I’ve managed to start a creative writing program for refugee and ..
read more”Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets ..
read more”The value of drawing is that it slows you down, you spend time looking…and you discover things.” Betty Churcher, Australian art educator and ..
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