Dorothy Hewett Award

I am thrilled to announce that I have been shortlisted for the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award! UWA Publishing, with support from the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, have announced the 6 writers from across Australia who have been shortlisted for the award. The judges for the award are Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, Astrid Edwards, Thuy On and Kate…

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The Angelus Boy

I’m walking through the city and I hear the bells of the Cathedral pealing. Whenever I hear a bell toll, I think about the Angelus boy. I wonder if there was something I could have done to change his fate. Or was it already too late by the summer of 1981? Even then I had the curious feeling that a current was dragging him down-river, with nothing to grasp onto.