Today Writing NSW profiled the memoir I wrote for Jeanne Rockey AM, One Life, Two Worlds.
Jeanne is one of the wonderful people who helped launch the Starlight Foundation and Foodbank. Her first husband, George Rockey, set up the transport company, TNT, with Sir Peter Abeles in the 1960s. But George died of cancer when his daughter Caroline was four, so Jeanne wanted to record his story and the story of their life together. This is their story.
Judges have announced the Short-List in the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize for 2021. My biography, Breaking through the pain barrier. The story of Michael J. Cousins AO made it onto the short-list. The number of entrants trebled after the success of the 2020 competition, which saw four publishing contracts awarded. The winner of this year’s […]
Faber Writing Academy at Allen and Unwin. At the end of last year, I felt privileged to win the Faber Academy Scholarship to take part in Patti Miller’s Writing True Stories course. Over the previous two decades as Patti published each new book on memoir writing, I studied it, but learning from her in person […]
Today I heard the biography I have written of the trailblazing pain medicine researcher, clinician and advocate for people suffering from chronic pain, Breaking through the pain barrier. The story of Michael J. Cousins AO, has been longlisted for the Hawkeye Publishing Prize—for the second consecutive year. The judges said in their feedback: ‘The field […]
