Poetry: Panda-demic
I throw up a peace sign
On the pedestrian crossing
To show you I’m smiling
Under the mask…
Capricorn Coast Writers Festival is write on track for 2021
The Capricorn Coast Writers Festival’s biennial schedule has worked like a dream: they planned to skip 2020 even before Covid-19 brought events to a standstill, and they’re already hard at work preparing for their next outing in 2021.
Read MoreCapricorn Coast memories and Central Highlands gold fever win 2019 Lorna McDonald Essay Prize
Reflections on growing up on the Capricorn Coast and misadventures in the Central Highlands minefields have won this year's Lorna McDonald Essay Prize.
Read MoreAuthor Kate-Lyn Therkelsen shares creative passion and untold stories
Kate-Lyn Therkelsen’s passion for writing has always been source of personal strength, and now the young novelist is sharing her creativity and her publishing journey through an event at Yeppoon Library on August 24.
Read MoreThe disappearance of Alice Drake
After the first shot, the old Mayor watched the apple fall from his wife’s hand and stumble across the carpet… Dr Wendy Davis investigates a cold case from the 1920s: the murder-suicide of former Bundaberg Mayor Lewis Maynard and his wife Alice Drake.
Read MoreLocal author targeted by creepy text messages
Word wranglers are warned to be on their guard, after a Rockhampton-based author received a string of anonymous messages offering to share a road trip to a writing event - as long as there are no “jealous husbands chasing us”.
Read MoreWordy weekend: first Capricorn Coast Writers Festival ready to roll
The inaugral Capricorn Coast Writers Festival is bringing together the region’s writers, wannabe wordsmiths, book nerds and literature lovers on May 31 to June 2 in Yeppoon.
Read MoreNeerkol Orphanage custody battle wins Lorna McDonald Essay Prize
Lesley Synge has won the second annual Lorna McDonald Essay Prize for a piece about her great-grandmother's struggle to regain custody of her children from Neerkol Orphanage.
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Read MoreFiction: Shadow Man
Our tour of terror has reached its final stop: the 13 Days of Halloween wrap up with a dark dance by LJ McLeod.
Read MoreFiction: The Pale Thing Behind the Waterfall
Today, Specul8 Publishing’s 13 Days of Halloween take us to Italy, with this macabre tale from Stephen Burns.
Read MoreFiction: In Memoriam
The 13 Days of Halloween continue, with ghostly fiction from Rockhampton master of horror Greg Chapman.
Read MoreFiction: Home Improvements
Today in the 13 Days of Halloween… Fixer-upper fantasies turn to nightmares in Aaron C Goulson’s short story Home Improvements.
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