Category: Brisbane
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Canberra and the Commonwealth
Hello person who is reading this. This post exists in order to announce 2 x exciting things! Exciting thing the first: I’ll be performing at one of the satellite events for the Commonwealth games on Thursday the 12th of April. Tales and Ales will feature some of my favourite humans, who also happen to be…
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Six Cold Feet Episode 1- Born under a bad sign
We are very excited to share the first full episode of our series Six Cold Feet! In episode 1 we meet our narrator, River, and some of the curious inhabitants of the town of Ullara. River tells us about Harmony’s unusual past. If you dig it please rate us on whatever podcast platform you use.…
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Six Cold Feet launch party + other shenanigans
Why hello there! I’m very, terribly, tremendously excited to invite you all to the launch party for Six Cold Feet. If you’re in Brisbane, come and party with us in person. If you’re anywhere else in the universe, have yourself a private listening party and let us know what you think of our first episode.…
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Gimme Empathy podcast interview
Scott Mercer was kind enough to have me on his new podcast Gimme Empathy. We talked about grief, death, batman, goldeneye, calcified amygdalae, Nick Cave, insomnia etc. He also has a very useful tip for how to not poison yourself. http://gimmeempathy.libsyn.com/6-let-your-sh-t-fall-apart-with-jm-donellan
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Navigating Centrelink: A Modern Tragedy in Endless Parts
I make the call with the rejection letter in my hand. The phone rings for a moment, then the line goes dead. I really never thought I’d long for the days when being on hold to Centrelink for hours was the best possible option. Now the phones don’t work at all. I drive to…
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Killing Adonis reviews, Youtube views and some new news.
Great news everybody! The first reviews for the US release of Killing Adonis have come in and they are the literary equivalent of a proud teacher sticking millions of gold stars over a student’s face. Extremely excited to announce I have even managed to score a coveted Kirkus Star, which makes you temporarily invincible (like…
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TEDxSouthBank talk: Why We Need Art
Very excited to finally share my talk from TEDxSouthBank! Big thanks to Anna Cooke, Rozina Suliman, Imaginary Theatre and QAGOMA for letting me use their images and discuss their wonderful creations. I had a lot of fun doing this, the first couple of minutes are me performing a spoken word piece about the experience of…
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Stendhal Syndrome launch party!
Debut poetry collection out next month. You should come to the launch.
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Rock & Roll Writers Festival
Hello there humans and any AI programs reading this, I’ve been a bit quiet of late but there are lots of exciting announcements to come in the next few weeks. The first of these is that I’m very proud to announce that I’ll be at the first ever Rock & Roll Writers Festival. There’s not…
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Boycott everything for no reason!
Working in the arts, you have to expect the odd negative review and the conventional wisdom is to just ignore them. However, I honestly never expected that anyone would ever care enough about my work to call for a boycott, and I DEFINITELY did not think that anyone would ever be demented enough to call…