Category: Festivals and Appearances

Sydney Writing Workshop

Look at this: I’m doing a writing workshop in Sydney, 30 April.                                ...

YA SF Day

I’ll be appearing with George Ivanoff at Embiggen Books this Sunday at one o’clock. Come along for readings and signings and general author meetingness.  ...

Steamscape

Steamscape is a steampunk exhibition, part of the cultural program of the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival. It’s running from 3 March to 25 March, with a free special launch evening on 2 March. I’m part of the program, delivering an Illustrated History of Steampunk. All welcome!      ...

Supanova!

Some big news! I’ll be appearing as a guest at Supanova Pop Culture Expo Melbourne and Gold Coast, in April. For info on guests (including me) see here.    ...

Guest Blogging

For the month of December, I’m Guest Blogging as Writer in Residence over at Inside a Dog, the website of the Centre for Youth Literature. Pop over and peruse my mindful meanderings.      ...

Book Launch!

Everyone is invited to the launch of ‘The Extraordinaires 1: The Exinction Gambit’ on Wednesday 7 December at the Northcote Library (Separation St, Northcote Vic 3070). For more details, visit the Darebin Libraries site...

A Thousand Words

A  couple of days devoted to books, reading and writing and talking about books, reading and writing can’t be a bad thing, can it? The ‘A Thousand Words Festival‘ (yes, that’s actually correct) is on this Friday and Saturday (23 and 24 September) at the Northcote Town Hall. Lots...

Voices on the Range

Just to let you all know, next week I’m part of the Voices on the Range festival at Fairholme College, Toowoomba. A great line up of authors, too, and I’m looking forward to catching up with them. If you’re in the neighbourhood on August 17th, pop in and say...

Name Dropping

It’s been a time and half, really, over the last week or so. First was the Sydney Writers’ Festival with all of its well-earned hooplah.  I met Garth Nix, Morris Gleitzman, Belinda Jeffrey, Judith Ridge, Bernard Beckett, Sean Williams, Deb Abela, Jacquie Harvey and Richard Newsome, as well as...

Sydney Writers’ Festival

I’m appearing at the Sydney Writers’ Festival Schools Days on 17 and 18 May, along with Belinda Jeffrey, Bernard Beckett and Cassandra Clare. Come along – I’ll be glad to to meet you, sign books, or just have a chat after the presentation....