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Well done, Diana.
On a day when various media report the findings of Matt Waller that sharks really like ACDC , it seems timely to announce my own good news, that my YA manuscript The Shark Caller has been accepted for publication with Random House in 2016!
The idea for this story began many years ago (Dec 2001), during a family holiday on a dive resort island near Kavieng in Papua New Guinea. My sister, Karen and her partner, Owen worked in PNG and were friends with the owners. I’d been to other PNG islands and The Marovo Lagoon (Solomon Islands) with them. Karen and Owen introduced me to the joy of diving on stunning reefs and WW2 shipwrecks. I loved watching ocean creatures and I also became interested in Pacific Island culture…
The actual Shark Caller story began a few years after that trip, but the draft went into the ‘revise one day’ drawer. That day didn’t arrive until 2012…
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Congratulations, to all involved.
The Maze Runner by James Dasher
The 52 -Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers
The Last Viking Returns by Norman Jorgensen & James Foley
Thank you to all the students who voted and all the Library staff who make this Children’s Choice Award possible.
from The Western Australian Young Readers’ Book Award Committee
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‘KEEP’
It takes all my strength to pull this life to me,
To claw and tear my way from one day to another
Not counting, just tearing one more here in the glow
of the sun suffocated by rays of light and warmth
holding tight to ties that bind. I want to keep
these precious feelings and bask in your love forever.
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2009
Written to the artwork of Jessica McCallum entitled ‘Keep’ and exhibited in 2009 during the ‘JM Exhibition’, His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth, Western Australia.
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Numero Uno
Do you think
those who
always insist
on entering first,
ever open doors
for others,
offer help when
it isn’t needed
or look back ~
except to bask
in their own
reflection?
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2002
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Tropfest cancelled after huge hole in funding… Perth’s Film & TV Institute in the State Cultural Centre will show local films made for this year’s cancelled event.
If you’re into elves and fantasy: Creative Haven Fantasy Designs Coloring Book by a local artist, Aaron Pocock.
And I just loved this, Colin Farrell reading William Butler Yeats.
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The Curious Persistence of Poetry Shops.
Ten Rules for Writing Fiction.
Undelivered letters shed light on 17th century society.
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Such talent!
Music is an art and a craft. And, for a performing artist it’s an art and a craft that must be practiced; physically, emotionally and spiritually engaged with- if the music is to live and the artist is to grow.
Between the beginning of 1971 and the early part of 1974 Eric Clapton who had become rock music royalty and widely acknowledged as a guitar god after his work with The Yardbirds, John Mayall, Cream, Delaney and Bonnie and Derek and The Dominoes was not practicing his art and craft.
Instead he was holed up in Hurtwood Edge, his luxurious hideaway in rural Surrey, seemingly having abandoned his talent and career in pursuit of the oblivion provided by alcohol and heroin. As is the way with addicts wasted days became wasted weeks became wasted months became wasted years.
His life and his career was saved from this tragic torpor through…
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Why Picture Books Are Important by Julie Hedlund Forgive me for the sap that is to follow, but picture books are important because they are love. First, there is the love that the author and illustrator put into their creation.
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