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25.01.2022 Always good advice from author Allison Tait.
25.01.2022 Some new paintings. Just practising - acrylics on paper.
25.01.2022 Episode 7 A Sunburnt Childhood
25.01.2022 Episode 15 - A Sunburnt Childhood Reading.
25.01.2022 Something to ponder! I have struggled to write after the first two books. Have a fiction manuscript of 63,000 words first draft. Needs to be totally re written. So better get the mojo back and tackle it!!!!
25.01.2022 Pretty happy to see that ‘My Outback Life’ is in the Australia Post Catalogue along with authors Matt Wright, Rachael Johns and Karly Lane! Buy up for Xmas peeps!
24.01.2022 A lovely word for you.
23.01.2022 I follow Natasha Lester and have read a couple of her historical fiction books. She happily shares lots of advice on her writing techniques and how to’s. This may be of help to you!
23.01.2022 A good opportunity to get yourself started with professional help with one of the top Territory writers.
22.01.2022 I really enjoy following K.M Allan. So much good writing advice and this is very timely for me. I haven’t written anything for months and really need to get back on track. Happy New Year to you all.
22.01.2022 Elizabeth Taylor of the Outback. My mother June Tapp. Chapter 13 ‘A Sunburnt Childhood.’
22.01.2022 The debate continues!
21.01.2022 A little story I wrote for the local show that would normally be on today. First prize in the ‘KATHERINE VIRTUAL SHOW 2020.’ The theme was of course, Isolation. Anzac Day In Isolation The morning star sparkled in the east as the sun spread her arms of salmon pink rays at the wispy clouds above. We walked out the gate with lighted candles and placed them on the driveway.... Our neighbours came into the semi dark on the other side of the road and one by one placed their candles on the cool grey sidewalk, clasped their hands and bowed their heads. A curlew called from the river as I turned the volume up on my speaker phone. The Last Post mournfully swept around us, lifting through the trees, gathering volume with the radio’s playing the dawn service across the town. The finches and honeyeaters twittered in the morning glow of stillness. As the bugle played the final notes and the rising sun sent its golden rays of warmth through the trees, I contemplated a world that had fought wars since time immemorial and today, we were fighting a war against an unrelenting enemy. It is our new normal. Will we gather in fifty years’ time at cenotaphs with an anthem and candles to remember the COVID 19 War of 2020 and the millions that lost their lives to the insidious virus of a pandemic? And with the going down of the sun, and in the morning We will remember them.
20.01.2022 Not sure how many greats - this is a lady on my grandmothers side. Book out of print, but thankful that it is out there somewhere. This photo of my copy.
19.01.2022 Some good advice here. With thanks to Dina Davis.
19.01.2022 Want to write a novel in a month. Sign up to this November challenge. I have done this twice. Never reached the end but got 30-40,000 words done! Is a good motivator.
19.01.2022 Let me know what you are currently reading and whether you like it or not.
19.01.2022 *COVID-19 UPDATE* The health and safety of all our writers, staff, guests and patrons is paramount. For this reason, we are currently exploring all options, inc...luding postponing the NT Writers Festival until a later date this year. Thank you for your patience as we work through this and confirm what our next steps will be. See more
19.01.2022 Avoid using these filler words in your writing.
18.01.2022 64 fours years ago. ‘A Sunburnt Childhood.’
18.01.2022 Looking for a literary agent. Haylee Nash is the bomb!
18.01.2022 My writing has taken a detour - I am painting and making home made cards.
17.01.2022 My writing mate. Django The Lionheart Tapp Coutts
17.01.2022 Episode 14 - A Sunburnt Childhood
17.01.2022 Episode 20 Final Chapter and Epilogue of A Sunburnt Childhood
17.01.2022 Episode 13 - A Sunburnt Childhood
16.01.2022 Episode 2 I hope you are enjoying my story.
16.01.2022 There is lots of good information out there in cyberspace.
15.01.2022 It is important to know what publishers are looking for and how to get ideas to approach them.
15.01.2022 Episode 3 Part 2 A Sunburnt Childhood reading which stops abruptly at around 20 minutes, when the phone rings. So I will commence from that point in Ep 3 pt2.
15.01.2022 Episode 10 - A Sunburnt Childhood. Live reading
14.01.2022 Articles from the Bulletin and other magazines about the Tapp Family in 1980/1990. I rescued these in a wet box, after our house was flooded in the Katherine Australia Day Flood of 1998. I threw them out on the lawn for a few days to dry so some are a bit worse for wear.
14.01.2022 Writing prompts for kids - and adults in these crazy COVID 19 times.
14.01.2022 Looking for a grant. Darwin City Council has created this grants finder link covering all industries across Australia- There is $166.9 Billion out there waiting for people/orgs to apply for.
13.01.2022 NT artists!! Entries open for the 45th Katherine Prize. Due 26 October. Email [email protected] for entry form.
13.01.2022 Episode 11 ‘A Sunburnt Childhood’.
12.01.2022 It is a tough read but all Australians should read it.
12.01.2022 Worth a read for all writers.
12.01.2022 Making home made cards with acrylics. Loving COVID 19 - slower pace of life and creativity.
11.01.2022 Episode 3 - part 2 ‘A Sunburnt Childhood’ reading.
11.01.2022 Episode 1 live reading ‘A Sunburnt Childhood’
11.01.2022 How to write a back page blurb for your book!
10.01.2022 Episode 9 A Sunburnt Childhood Chapter 11
08.01.2022 Hi Everybody! Here it is as promised our last Hoorah before Christmas. A Tribute to the legendary Bill Withers with his repertoire performed by The Wet Funk Orchestra (10 Piece Band including horn section) and Sung by David Spry, Prayer Corby, Maia, Kamahi Djordon King and The Gorgeous Leah Flanagan. This could be the perfect opportunity to have your office Christmas Party for 2020 in a different setting. As it is the last show of the Year we have decided to make this a caba...ret style presentation with Tables seating 7. You can book a whole table at a discounted rate of $385 or pay for individual tickets of $60. Each table will include a table share tasting box and the bar will be available during the show. Doors and Bar open at 630pm for a 7pm start. Don't miss out! Book now. For more information call Kamahi on 8972 3751 or simply book tickets on the link below. https://www.trybooking.com/BNCKL
08.01.2022 Episode 12 ‘A Sunburnt Childhood’ live reading
08.01.2022 Should be writing but loving playing with acrylics.
07.01.2022 The link to my Conversation with Richard Fidler in 2016. Was a lot of fun and he is a really lovely fella. Ciao Toni
07.01.2022 2020 NT WRITERS FESTIVAL POSTPONED TO 1-4 OCT Given the current circumstances surrounding #COVID19 and the new laws around travel and mass gatherings, it is ev...ident that we need to postpone the 2020 NT Writers Festival. While this has been a difficult decision, we are fortunate that we are in a position to reschedule the festival. When making this decision, the health and safety of our participating writers, staff, guests and patrons was paramount. We also took into account the need to preserve the program's artistic integrity, including its celebration of Australia's cultural and linguistic diversity. We look forward to sharing a thoughtfully curated program that preserves most of the original lineup, hopefully with a few exciting new additions, at the George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens on these new dates: Thursday 1 October to Sunday 4 October 2020. The festival will still be four days of talks, readings, workshops and storied walks exploring the 2020 Festival theme, "Gunamidirra garawa birditj | when the tides turn." Ticket sales for the Early Bird All Panel Pass will be re-opened in August. If you have already purchased tickets to NTWF, you will be refunded in the coming days. We look forward to revealing our updated full program in late August. Until then, take good care of yourselves and others, especially friends and colleagues in the arts who may be facing difficulties in these precarious times. In particular, we would like to express our solidarity with our friends at Sydney Writers' Festival who have had to cancel their wonderful program. In the meantime, stay tuned for a reading list of works by some of the festival writers we had announced up on our website to help you stay occupied and to help support Australian authors.
07.01.2022 Episode 18 - A Sunburnt Childhood
06.01.2022 I know I should be writing because I do have a first draft fiction book written, very roughly, however I have gotten waylaid with painting with acrylics. I am really enjoying taking a different road with my creativity.
06.01.2022 Episode 8 A Sunburnt Childhood
06.01.2022 EPISODE 6 - A Sunburnt Childhood
06.01.2022 A six week whirlwind trip around the USA. What an amazing place, where everything is BIG!
06.01.2022 You can listen to the live readings of my book ,A Sunburnt Childhood’ here. You need to start at number one the live and then the rest are pre-recorded. Listen at your own pace and in your own time. The episodes are numbered so you can keep the order of the chapters.
05.01.2022 Episode 17- A Sunburnt Childhood
05.01.2022 I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being. Iranian Poet Hafez.
04.01.2022 Episode 4 part 1 ‘A Sunburnt Childhood’ reading
04.01.2022 Episode 5 part 1 A Sunburnt Childhood
04.01.2022 On Sunday 29 March at 11 am (DARWIN NT time) I will commence reading my memoir ‘A Sunburnt Childhood’ on live streaming. I will read three chapters a day for about a week, and maybe have a little chat after. Creative COVID 19
04.01.2022 Finished this today. Great read! Also loved the first book ‘Nowhere Child.’
04.01.2022 Episode 4 part 2 A Sunburnt Childhood.
03.01.2022 Episode 16 - A Sunburnt Childhood Reading.
03.01.2022 Some new pictures. Just playing and being happy.
02.01.2022 I have the honour of having a letter printed in Samuel Johnson’s new book ‘Dear Dad.’ Support cancer research and buy yourself and your favourite man a copy. It will make you laugh and cry and contemplate who and what makes up a world of fathers. Buy it in all good bookshops and online.
02.01.2022 The top bestsellers in Australia 2019.
02.01.2022 Book review from an old friend whom I had recently sent the books to. If you have lived in Katherine or Boroloola district's and haven't yet done it get hold of Toni Tapp Coutts two books. Sunburnt Childhood about growing up on Killarney. My Outback Life which tells of her time with husband Shaun and their kids on MacArthur River Station. She throws names around like a brand new mother in law throws confetti. I felt like I was there. Shit I know him. I remember when he....... I sometimes wanted to comment like here on the post. I cursed the one about Killarney when I had a feed about 4pm (reading it) and reckoned I would have a smoke and then clean up the dishes. Next thing the sun went down. The dishes hadn't been cleaned and Bill Tapp had just bought Roper Valley. Great read Toni. Good on you!!!!
01.01.2022 Episode 19 - A Sunburnt Childhood
