Read this wonderful article praising my writing in the Cairns Post and my interview with Fiona Sewell on ABC Radio Far North Queensland.

HERE IS MY CV and blog
This webpage is for my publishing credits. What have I had published by others? I am a member of the Queensland Writers’ Centre

1996 -

ABC Far North radio poetry competition Voices of the Heartland - The Daintree Flood shortlisted and read out

Australian Rhyming Poetry anthology included Charles In Charge bush poem

1997 -

Central Queensland University published poem In Intensive Care in Issue 1 Idiom 23

Banksnotes published poems Monsoon, The Day, King Tide, Bamboo Souls in monthly booklet

Anthology Breath of the Eucalypt published at Queensland Universtty, invited to read at launch, poem A Poem To The Port Arthur Father, Poem - Floria was also included

Australian Wrters’ Journal published poems On Watch and Monsoon in November

1998 -

Nightvoices poets interveiwed on 4CCR. Coordinated Nightvoices open mic poets and musicians for five years

Henry Kendall comp Myriad anthology published Bamboo Souls poem

Centoria 3 commended Five Act Play poem

Book Launch Myriad, Councillor Margaret McGowan chose to read Bamboo Souls poem

Cairns Navy Wives published Lady Scientists poem

1999 -

Peace and Freedom Press published and runner-up in competition Diane’s Desiderata, a poem

Wymondham Writers published What Milennium poem

Woodford Folk Festival anthology published Just Don’t Call Me Fat poem

Lambing Flats FAW shortlist, highly commended My Brother’s Wife poem

2000 -

First Prize $UK50 Quantum Leap competition Death In A Foreign Land poem

Novel When Merlin Woke spec-fic, highly commended in Queensland Arts Council Regional Writers Award

Article in January Cairns Post about Qld Arts Council and Quantum Leap awards

Ran Poets breakfast and walk up competition as part of Reef Festival - now Festival Cairns

Ouse Valley poets top 120 out of 7000 Lady Zephyr poem

Peace and Freedom Press anthology Leave the Past poem

Runner up Quantum Leap 5×5 July - poetry - Five Poems

Read on ABC far North by Jason Hagen Egg poem

Cairns Peace Week - In subsequent years since 2000 I’ve run a poetry competition, a musician/poet night attended by over 100 hundred people, an exhibition of photographs and poetry of Australian soldier/peacekeepers helping East Timorese to rebuild their country - opened by Xanana Gusmao, and a one off volume of peace poetry called Bamboo Souls - now on permanent display at Artists For A Better World

2001 -

Peace and Freedom Press runner up, Leave The Past poem

2002 -

Ouse Valley Poets published Death In A Foreign Land poem

2003 -

Novel Excerpt Speed Of Darke commended in Qld Arts Council Awards

2004 -

Edited anthology of Peace Week poetry Bamboo Souls for Artists For A Better World

Poem Respect Differences included in Bamboo Souls

Little Ship-Big Trip logbook of a sailing trip from Sydney to Cairns published by Adventure Yarns as an ebook

2005 -

Logbook Little Ship - Big Trip published as a paperback by Adventure Yarns

Poem Food of Love included at Mareeba Coffee Works, Queensland, Australia, antholgy and displayed on parchment on wall

Poem Death in a Foreign Land read at Belfast Poets, Tanks - Festival Cairns

2006 -

Designed and typeset Between the Leaves anthology by local writers Group in Cairns - one short story Waitng For Ross and two poems Haiku and Egg - included

Invited to be part of the self-publishing forum at Rainforest Writers’ Festival in Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia - 21st Oct

2007 -

Article about a diet used to survive cancer which also cleared up asthma published by Healthy Options

Poem Death in a Foreign Land chosen and translated for Patralekha, Kolkata, to Bengali

Story Powerlines published in Celapene Press Short & Twisted anthology 1

Three Lights gallery accepted one Haiku for their online gallery

Tradegy published in local writers monthly newsletter

Story Woden the Wolf Spider published by Peccary Magazine

Article Nomadic Writng published by Queensland Writers Centre

Novella Speed of Darke published by Silverage Books in Theakers Quarterly #17

Poem Subterranean Soul published by Ken*Again literary magazine

Story Coma published by Ken*Again literary magazine

Story Freida Loved Wedding Anniversaries published by Long Short Story

Poem Blue Moon published by Events Quarterly

Story Playing Around published by Burst

Forward Press anthology Crossing Paths accepted Secateurs

Black Box anthology shortlisted Tragedy short story

Poems Blue Moon and The Blue Lady published by Arabesques Review

Preliminary format and cover design of Enriched Voice - Enriched Life here for Hazel Menehira

Wrote copy for website Cairns Flying Adventures

Story Freida Loved Wedding Anniversaries and poem Before The Monsoon published in Mangoes On Fire anthology

Formatted Mangoes On Fire anthology for loccal Cairns writers group

Poems Red, Violette Szabo Read Poetry, Working Late in Adagio Verse Quarterly

James Cook University book launch Mangoes On Fire - poem Before The Monsoon chosen to be read by Steven Torre, professor

Hecale published Road To Nowhere and Five Act Play

Healing The Sea With Words published excerpt of Little Ship - Big Trip

Excerpt of my novel ‘Marked With a Zed’ highly commended in Queensland Arts Council Regional Writers’ Award

2008 -

Read Freida Loved Wedding Anniversaries on ABC radio Far North Queensland

Fresh Literary Magazine accepted Coonangelbah online and in print

All Rights Reserved accepted Dog One – Man Zero

Photo Essay Purple Decorations published in Lucrezia

Leaping Bones accepted by Eden Waters

Mahina Pearl accepted for Tropical Writers - Raining On The Sun anthology

Published Bougainville Blue and Northern Territory Coast Cruising Guide

Winning Tips published in Gold Dust Magazine

Billy Who Walked Backwards published in Crossing Rivers Into Twilight Journal

Poem - I Have Eaten is in print at Hecale Magazine

2009 -

Waitomo Cave is published by Drunk And Lonely Men Journal

Coonangelbah accepted by LiteraryBitch

Published Bamahuta Leaving Papua - which was originally published by Pandanus Press

Interviewed by the Cairns Post - fabulous article in the Cairns Eye Wednesday supplement, May 2009

Interviewed on the local ABC radio station by Fiona Sewell. here is the SOUND FILE OF THE INTERVIEW

Invited to read at the Ever After Book Club in September - Powerlines after someone read Playing Around out loud at the August meeting - in Cairns CBD

Inherited Sapphire Live poetry space when Pip Sheehan moved to NZ. Now it is Nightvoices once again (as the venue changed its name and is no longer the Sapphire Bar) which has been going non-stop since 1998, with at least one meeting a year - apart from the year I was having treatment for cancer.

Asked to edit text of historic website of Australia’s first submarine

Creation Theory published by Defenestration Literary Magazine

Poem Dunk Island Dreams performed for documentary “Sea Things’, by Red Room Company

Bamahuta Leaving Papua by Philip Fitzpatrick - published by myself - was read by Australian Members of the Federal Parliament. Papua New Guinea ‘Kiaps’ were paid high tribute in Australian Parliament ‘BAMAHUTA LEAVING PAPUA’ – a book by PHILIP FITZPATRICK, played a role in this endeavour. It details his life as a Kiap and was read by MPs: Scott Morrison, Duncan Kerr, John Faulkner

Bougainville Blue, a book by Brian Darcey, which I publlished is to be presented to five top-ranking Members of the Autonomous Government of Bougainville, including President Joseph Tanis, as an Xmas present

Published collection of short stories previously accepted by publishers of online and print journals - The Speed Of Darke

2010 -

Interviewed by Gretchen Miller of Radio National for ‘Sea Things‘ project

Excerpt of my ‘in-progress’ novel Marked With A Zed, called The Last Dance accepted for publication by Rivets Literary Magazine

Now facilitating Nightvoices poets and musos meetings at Tichum Creek - just west of Kuranda

Short story Waiting For Ross - extended version has been accepted for publication by Vast Horizons, a magazine dedicated to Philip K Dick

A member of a London Book Club read a free copy of The Speed Of Darke that I left in a cafe at the Shangri-La Hotel in Cairns, bought one and decided to feature it as the monthly book on the subject of ‘relationships’