Why I am feeling loss, but it's okay

Well. Okay. Sunday was closing night for The Death of Albatross's Wollongong season. Intense. Exhilarating. Fabulously successful in so many, many ways (preliminary figures even suggest we made a modest profit).

But now...over. My wonderful actors and I have dispersed again to the four winds, on to other projects. The thrill of accomplishing of something glorious together, trusting each other utterly, giving an intricate and precious gift to the audience — here, we made this, it's for you — done.

After the mountaintop comes the desert, I guess. And I guess it has to be that way — if it were all mountaintop, how could we climb any higher? How could we know we yearned to?

First poetry night at Owls: Science Fiction and Fantasy!

Just a reminder to everyone that the first of the poetry nights I'm running at Yours and Owls is on Monday, April 2 — it's a speculative-poetry night: science fiction, fantasy, horror! Arrive at 7:00 for a quick workshop in reading your stuff out loud; arrive at 7:15 to get a spot to read; arrive before 7:30 to claim a seat and order something nice to eat and drink!

We have some great poets lined up: Leigh Blackmore, Kyla Ward, Margi Curtis, Richard Harland, and others! Looking forward to seeing you there!