Dry River Writings
There wasn’t much of a fence between my place and Jim and Cathy’s. Just a row of posts and some wire strung between. A year or so after I moved in, we decided to hang a gate between two of the posts so we didn’t have to walk all the way down to the street…
‘Who is your greatest literary influence?’ It was at the launch of my novel Garnet at the Cobargo RSL Hall in March. It’s one of those basic questions you expect as a writer and, for me, the answer was easy. Her prose, her humility, her humanity, her powers of observation. The stuff she notices. The…
I was having lunch with Heather O’Connor at the Sundeck in Bermagui recently when a woman approached our table. Heather smiled and said to me, ‘Do you know Kathryn? Lois Irwin’s daughter. She’s visiting from California.’ I did – I remembered her from her father’s funeral. ‘Mum’s just finished your book,’ Kathryn said to me….