Threasa Meads: Being Brave As A Writer
I’m proud to welcome writer and artist, Threasa Meads, to the attic this week. Please read on for a beautiful piece about being brave in your writing. Threasa is the author of two liminal autobiographies, Nobody and Mothsong (Rare Bird Books, 2016), and a visual...
Helen Jones: Writing As A Self-Published Author
The days of snail mail and letters to pen pals in other countries might be behind us, but thanks to the internet, it’s easier than ever to form friendships with people overseas whom we’ve never met. I have a few such friends, people I correspond...
Teena Raffa-Mulligan: A Writing Life
Teena Raffa-Mulligan has stepped into the attic today and gives us another beautiful essay in this series. The honesty and simplicity with which she tells the story of what writing has meant to her will move you. Teena is a reader, writer...
Michele Nugent: What It Means To Be A Writer—A Listicle
Never let it be said that things get boring up here in the attic! This week, I have a light-hearted listicle on what it really means to be a writer, written by my guest, Michele Nugent. Michele is a former newspaper editor and journalist with 30...
Is Blogging Worth It?
Blogging is a big commitment. I’ve done it for three-and-a-half years now, and there have been times I’ve been tempted to let it lapse. When it’s felt like too much of a burden, another deadline, a time-sucker. I’m not a quick writer,...
Tabetha Rogers-Beggs: A Writing Whirlwind
This week’s guest in the attic is my busy writerly friend, Tabetha Rogers Beggs. Tabetha is mix of all things creative; performer, playwright, writer and philosopher. She is the Chairwoman of the historic Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP)...
Shannon Meyerkort: Wearing Many Hats
This week, local writer, Shannon Meyerkort, joins me in the attic. Shannon is a writer and blogger based in Perth, where she lives with her husband and three daughters. She has been published in various magazines, both print and online, has had short stories...
Elisabeth Hanscombe: Being a Writer and a Psychologist
Today, a good friend of mine, Elisabeth Hanscombe, steps into the attic to write about what writing means to her and the difficulties of squeezing it in around a heavy working schedule. I met Elisabeth through blogging, in particular through a...
Maureen Helen: On the Edge of Eighty
Every week when I introduce the next writer in the attic, I say how excited I am to welcome them as my guest. It’s probably starting to sound as if I’m just saying it because I must, but it’s true. Every week I...
Emily Paull: Being a Writer in Your Twenties
This week, Emily Paull joins me in the attic. Emily is a writer, a blogger and a bookseller. In 2014, she was Young Writer in Residence at the KSP Writers Centre in the Perth Hills. Her work has appeared in Trove, METIOR, [Re]Sisters and Shibboleth and other stories,...