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Let's be honest for a moment - Poetry is intimidating.

And I believe that is because when we first learn about poetry we are often reading it, not writing it.

As...

Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, I use the term ‘Rabbit Hole Poem’ to describe a common experience known to poets.

This is the phenomenon of sitting down to write on a certain topic, theme, style, or emotion and then realising that you have written, or are in t...

Advice for writing poetry for competitions, prizes, anthologies and group projects that have a theme or topic.

In recognition of my role as the Martha Richardson Poetry Prize judge in 2024, I'm going to be sharing a range of quick tips and tricks on my Instagram page. The aim is to help poets get...

Advice for writing poetry for competitions, prizes, anthologies and group projects that have a theme or topic.

In recognition of my role as the Martha Richardson Poetry Prize judge in 2024, I'm going to be sharing a range of quick tips and tricks on my Instagram page. The aim is to help poet...

It is with great excitement that I announce that I have been appointed the judge of the 2024 Martha Richardson Memorial Poetry Prize.

‘The Martha’, as it’s fondly known, was one of the first programs that I was involved with when I first moved to Ballarat in 2008. When I joined the committee as pub...

 I’ll admit it. Nine Cups is an odd name for a writing community and publishing press.

Autocorrect always wants to change it to ‘Nice Cups’, and it never fits with the business advice on choosing a name that explicitly sells out your service. (No, I don’t make cups). 

But the name came to me in th...