![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve written creatively most of my life but was in my mid-twenties before I started sending anything out. I quickly developed a love of rhythm and storytelling.Īt primary school during the breaks I improvised stories in installments to a small group of kids, always leaving off at some ‘cliffhanger’. Dad was a natural Irish yarn spinner, often quoting Banjo Patterson and Lewis Carroll: “The time has come,” the walrus said, “to talk of many things…” Mum was a school teacher, always making up little poems and stories for her students. We always had a small but diverse bookcase crammed with all sorts from Shakespeare to Pam Ayres, lots of mystery novels… She edits the online journal Communion with her partner, Ralph Wessman.īooks were part of the furniture growing up. She also writes poems and stories for children and combines photographs with short poems, inspired by the Japanese art form haiga. She has read her poetry in Malaysia, UK, USA, Czech Republic, Canada and Ireland. O’Hearn Memorial Fellowship and the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize. Awards for her poetry include the FAW Anne Elder Award, the D.J. She is the author of five collections of poems and one of short stories. Jane Williams is an Australian writer based in Tasmania. ![]()
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