by Peninsula Writers' Club | Past Writers in Residence
There once was an ancient Greek philosopher – a student of Plato and a colleague of Aristotle – whose name was Theophrastus. According to Diogenes Laërtius (a third century biographer of Greek philosophers), Theophrastus authored 227 works. A prolific writer indeed!...
by Peninsula Writers' Club | Past Writers in Residence
But you are a living vessel, a breathing archive… I wanted to be white. I was seven years old and mad keen on cricket. All of Australia’s players looked white and I didn’t resemble them. I feared—with imminent fury—being perceived as less Aussie, less real, than...
by Peninsula Writers' Club | News
The 2022 Mornington Peninsula Shire Mayor’s Writing Award is now open for entries Aspiring, emerging and established writers of the Mornington Peninsula Shire are invited to submit short story entries to the Mornington Peninsula Shire Mayor’s...
by Peninsula Writers' Club | Past Writers in Residence
The day long awaited had now arrived. The family gathering had a supplementary purpose to general sociality—the slaughter of an elderly, post-egg-laying chicken: a consumer of crumb, who gave no gift in return (apart from her poop fertilizing the earth). The time had...
by Peninsula Writers' Club | Past Writers in Residence
We’d zig-zagged our way across the Peninsula today – from Main Ridge to Balnarring, Mount Martha to Mornington. Time for our last job of the day. Only Wendy and I remained. Ordinarily there were four of us, but Gina was sick and Charlotte had left early. The sun was...
