Athough the area has undergone a complete transformation in those forty years, definitely for the worse, I still cling on to being there. I have lived in Sydney’s inner west, at Rozelle, since the early 1980s. I have been fortunate in having beautiful places to write in.
Writing needs time, but it also needs place. Authorship and readership is not what it was, and entering the writing world I have been inhabiting as a kind of ghostly presence for so long has been a challenge. One of the hardest has been learning to manage the world of websites, domains, social media and the rest. The academic career was a godsend and although it took me away from what I most wanted to do it gave me a range of extraordinary and unique experiences which I now find myself drawing on.įinally I retired from an active University life and went back to writing, hoping it wasn’t too late for a “career” in independent publishing. I have had to learn all kinds of things nobody once needed to know to be a writer. It was my first love, and first choice of career, but many things stopped me, not least the need to support three children. Many are also available online at .īut I think of myself first as a creative writer now.
I have said a bit about my academic writings on this site. I am still publishing these occasionally and am widely cited in many fields. I pursued an academic career, writing articles for learned journals and chapters in books. I was sixteen once (above left) and from that day to this (right) I’ve been writing: letters, diaries, memos, thousands of pages of essays and theses.
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