At a ceremony in the State Library of Queensland on Monday night, 31 August, my book The Blue Plateau won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award (in the nonfiction category). My friend Peter Boyle won the poetry category for his mesmerising book Apocrypha.

Other prizes went to J M…

My first book of poems, Fire Diary, will be published on 1 October by Puncher & Wattmann.

I’ll launch it in early October at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival. Soon after that, it’ll get an international launch at the Ubud Readers and Writers Festival. Then in November we’ll roll…

My poem “Song of (Someone Like) My Self” has been shortlisted for this year’s Blake Poetry Prize.

The Blake—long a prize for visual art, and since 2008 a prize for poetry, too—honours the mystic, engraver, painter and poet William Blake and encourages poets to engage in the ancient…

Thanks to the Kitchen Table Poets, FAW Shoalhaven, South Coast Writers Centre and Arts NSW, I’m giving a poetry reading in Nowra on Friday 10 September. The gig is called River Reading—a regular event, sometimes featuring good poets, but this time, sadly, only me—and you’ll find it at the Shoalhaven…

I’m running a writing retreat and workshop in Fiji in July 2011.

My workshop, for all creative writers, is called A Dream with a Pen in Hand, a phrase from a poem of mine, “Things I’m Trying to Believe”.

Check it out here: http://paradisecourses.com/creative-writing-retreat/

From Monday 23 August to Thursday 9 September, I’m staying down on the Shoalhaven River in the Writer’s Cottage at Bundanon. The Bundanon Residencies are hard to come by, and I feel blessed to have one. I hope the muse finds me there, for I’d love to get some poems…