Sue Whiting

It was a writerly weekend. On Saturday, the Sydney Writers Festival was literally streaming into the Gong Town Hall. The program included live-streamed sessions from the Big Show in Sydney and local events in between. The highlight for me was Catherine McKinnon in conversation. Catherine is the local author of Storyland, a novel receiving critical acclaim…

When I saw The Successful Children’s Writer”: Many Eggs, Many Baskets tweeted by Sue Whiting yesterday, my first thought was to dissect why it was such a good heading having just completed a Year 9 English task with #2 that son involved deconstructing an article, from the heading down. Many eggs, many baskets was a reference to diversifying…

This is one of my most favourite events on my bookish calendar. The annual Illawarra and South Coast CBCA Children’s Literary Lunch is so popular among local schools there’s a waiting list every year. One thing I particularly like to see is the relationship between the kids and their librarian. Often the kids are library…

During September my local art gallery, Beach Art, has been holding a local Authors and Illustrators exhibition featuring among others, the work of Sue Whiting, Donna Rawlins, Ann Lamb, Lexie Watt, Rhian Nest-James and myself. To kick off the first day of the school holidays, I spent an hour in the gallery making origami and…