is going to be published! Needless to say I am over the moon, with the cow and everything!!

cow over moon

It will be a chapbook, part of the Picaro Poets series published by Ginninderra Press based in Port Adelaide, so about 20 poems. Short and sweet I know but I am absolutely thrilled, a book of all my own work, how amazing is that, and it will even be available in bookshops!!

Ginninderra Press is an award-winning independent publisher run by Stephen Matthews that provides opportunities for new and emerging writers, as well as those writing about more non-mainstream topics. They only accept a very small amount of manuscripts they receive, so I am really quite honoured they are publishing mine.

Having recently acquired Picaro Press, an independent publisher based in Melbourne run by Rob Riel, Stephen and his partner Brenda have developed a new series of Picaro Poets to continue the tradition of Picaro Press chapbooks. So I have been working closely with Brenda to develop mine – choosing a cover design, editing content, adding acknowledgements, writing an author biography, etc. – and I can’t tell you how excited I am to see the final product, you know, just a bit! Launch date to be announced, woohoo!!