I am enthusiastic about telling my story all about my illness – bipolar mood swing disorder. I write with restlessness and with recklessness sometimes with energy so strong along with energy incredibly low. With the effect of this illness comes the need to rebuild myself and my self-esteem and finally to come to terms with the illness ......
In 2014 George Huitker decided to merge his love of music and service education and convinced his band Junk Sculpture to undertake a life-changing tour of north-western New South Wales. This was the very region where his service learning program was introducing his urban-based students to rural communities to gain a better understanding of ......
As the title suggests this collection of short stories focuses on a variety of unusual but not atypical emotional and life-style reactions people experience as a result of guilt compassion indiscretion abuse jealousy fantasy loss sense of mission and impending death. It provides insight into the strange nature of what it means to be ......
The poems in this collection were written in Pristina and Prizren (Kosovo) and in Dubrovnik – each with their rich stories and heritage. The title represents a new era for the Balkan region beyond the historical conflict of Kosovo’s ‘Blackbird Field’ so poems are grouped in line with sunset evening or night falling ......
Gwen Bitti born with a facial caul in Calcutta India migrates to Australia with her family when she is sixteen. She returns to her birth land for a visit some years later. On her arrival she is jolted into a new perspective and with fresh insight sets off on a quest. The motif of her enigmatic caul is woven throughout her memoir as she ......
‘Between Two Moons is a delightful gift by Judith E.P. Johnson from Tasmania an island far in the south. The scenes she captures with her warm-hearted and observant eyes in her daily life and also in nature are quite charming and agreeable. This collection will be my favourite for a long time.’ - Satoru Kanematsu ......
Migration has played a large part in Australia's history and culture since 1788 and in this collection Adrian Rogers reflects on the migrant experience evoking the northern hemisphere through his knowledge of Ireland and setting it against the reality of modern Australia thereby highlighting both the differences and similarities between the two ......
David Brelsford emigrated aged 22 and fell in love with Australia straightaway. ‘The only regret I have about coming here ’ he says ‘is that I didn’t come earlier.’ He took up long distance running in his fifties and has undertaken charity runs to raise funds for Motor Neurone Disease research. He lives in ......
Most of us have packed a suitcase or a small bag to go on a journey somewhere... But to pack a suitcase for the last journey of all? The hand luggage crammed full or almost empty with which to arrive in heaven? Angela Pritchard's childhood is in post-war London and later she trains as a nurse in one of the big teaching hospitals there. After ......
