Archive for the 'Events' Category

Last Sunday my wife and I attended the second launch of Rosanne Hawke’s latest novel Marrying Ameera. This time the launch was in Rosanne’s home town of Kapunda in the lower north of South Australia. I wrote a review of this wonderful book here. The launch was held in one of the local art galleries [...]

The Children’s Book Council of Australia has announced the winners of this year’s Book of the Year awards. For the full list of both the winning books and the honour books click here. Permit me a few moments of dreaming: I hope one day my name will be listed in these awards. Okay – dream [...]

I should have promoted this sooner. Never mind – there’s still time for South Australian writers to attend the first Word Writers Fair in Adelaide tomorrow, 21st August 2010. (Just make sure you vote in the federal elections first!) This special event is free. All you have to do is rock up at Tabor Adelaide, [...]

Many of my readers here possibly do not know that I am a passionate birder. In fact, I write a very popular birding blog called Trevor’s Birding (click here). It is one of the most popular of its type with many hundreds of daily visitors. Heaps of photos too. One of the essential tools of [...]

Lest we forget. Today is ANZAC Day, a very special day on the calendar in both Australia and New Zealand. On this day we remember our war heroes, those who served – and continue to serve – our country on the battlefields of the world. I wrote a special tribute to the ANZACs a few [...]