Billie Rose Russell plays Maude So…I can at last say officially that my follow up adaptation of the wonderful Pip Williams’ The Bookbinder of Jericho, will be staged in 2027/28. Pip wrote The Bookbinder of Jericho as her second novel after the runaway success of The Dictionary of Lost Words. It’s not a sequel, but it is linked. It shares several characters and the world of Oxford at the outbreak of the First World War, but perspectives are very different. Its protagonist is a

Ireland, 2025 This isn’t really a blog anymore. Blogs are a bit done, I suspect. The heading should be be: ‘News’. However, writing involves a lot of waiting so I can’t pass on ‘News’ until the others involved are ready for it to be ‘News’ for their organisations as well. So news on playwriting will have to wait. But I’m very happy – after one version of a collection of my poems was short-listed for the Noel Rowe Award 2025 and another version was long-listed for the

7-ON A Collection That image up there is the cover for the new book of plays by the members of the playwrights’ group to which I belong,...

Bottom Row: L>R Donna Abela; Vanessa Bates; Noëlle Janaczewska; Hilary Bell. Back Row: Ned Manning; Me; Catherine Zimdahl This post is...

(In the Scriptorium (2023 production) As usual I’m posting a bit behind the beat. But given that Linked In and my website are the only...

Bear at Sunrise The bear is apropos pf nothing – it’s just there to get your attention but also for me to say, yes, this WAS an early...

Any excuse to feature more images of welcome swallows...Just a quick heads up. To my surprise and delight, my poem Welcome Swallow was...

As you can see from the above image, the amazing people at Affirm Press are now advertising the availability of the book of my stage...

Yes I know…what on earth does an image of the Neolithic site, Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands have to do with an upcoming talk at the...

I’m in sunny Portugal at the moment on a bit of a private odyssey. Lots of planning for lots of projects which is also a sunny place to...

Earlier this week I hosted a Q and A session at the re-furbished Piccadilly Cinema in North Adelaide for the SAFC Screen Circle with...

Oh look…it’s been a wild ride. Sometimes the universe gets behind you with a mighty blast. And you do have to acknowledge those moments...

I don’t know quite why I have a blog if I’m always writing in it just that bit late. My adaptation of Pip Williams’ novel, The Dictionary...

I'm cheating here by offering an updated report from the 7-ON website where the seven of us (or as many as can get to it at a given...

I need to give a shout-out to Matthew Thorne and Derik Lynch whose short film, Marungka tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black) has just won the...

There seems to be a confluence of happenings up on this hill. The artists in the family – namely Janet Ayliffeand Margie Sheppard – are...

I’m such a spasmodic blogger. I do try from time to time. Either way, it’s great to have something new to say. I’m pretty thrilled to be...

What is the point of having set up a blog if you never write in it? Well, it can serve as a ‘next thing’ outlet, and I expect it does....

No, this koala has nothing to do with writing, or theatre, or…anything really, apart from a moment of optimism in a grey old, mean old...

So happy to say that my adaptation of the wonderful Pip Williams’ best-selling novel, The Dictionary of Lost Words has just been...