News 2021
Australian Fairy Tale Society bestowed upon me their national award, for my contributions to fairytale arts through music, writing, storytelling, editing & non-profit work. As part of the Award, Lorena Carrington created this painting for me. It’s also an honour to have my name on the trophy sculpture by Spike Deane: a glass dome and a metallic tree frog.
South of the Sun: An intercultural anthology I co-edited, South of the Sun: Australian fairy tales for the 21st century, arrived! Published in partnership with Serenity Press and Australian Fairy Tale Society, for YA and Adults, it involves over fifty authors & illustrators including Indigenous people and recent immigrants, spanning four generations across media, from oral to visual.
North of the Moon: Three fey Celtic-Australian minstrels, from three States, united at the Autumn Equinox to bring you some of our most fairytalish songs. Enter North of the Moon: Three Australian Faerie Bards. Instruments include flute, mandolin, charango, harps and bardic vocals, from folklorists honed in storytelling, mythology, poetry and Druidic / Pagan / Faery paths. Let balladeers carry you through seas and groves of Faery Lands. We have our own page on Bandcamp just for this compilation. Click here for the digital album.
