Reading Time: 7 minutes View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lexi Sargeant ☼ (@lexisargeant) on Apr 11, 2018 at 3:29am PDT Today I’m not interviewing an author, but an artist. Lexi Sargeant is a graphic designer turned photographer whose life changed two years ago when she was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Lexi’s work…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Laundry Man, also known as Jakob Boyd, is part spoken word poet, part anarchist and next month, he’s launching his first full length book. I first met, Jakob when I was coordinating the WA Poetry Festival (now called the Perth Poetry Festival) for WA Poets Inc, but I didn’t get to know him until well…
Reading Time: 10 minutes Creating worlds is hard. Or, should I say, creating believable worlds is hard. Thankfully, earlier this week, I was able to sit down with an expert. I e-met science-fiction/fantasy author Lee Battersby when he emailed me through my website and asked me to judge the City of Rockingham’s Christmas Poetry Competition. I judged that competition twice…
Reading Time: 9 minutes Scott-Patrick Mitchell (SPM) is a performance poet based in Perth, Western Australia who is constantly taking risks and experimenting with new forms of writing. He’s recently started writing fiction, and I’ve been quite eager to talk to him about whether poetry has supported or complicated the transition. As well as his work in writing, SPM is…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Children’s author Josh Langley is a guru when it comes to how to be creative and let go of your fears. How do I know this? Well, he helped me. I first met Josh Langley at the 2016 Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival, where we were both participating authors. Josh and I met at…