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21/08/2025

I'm delighted to be shortlisted in the poetry category of the 2025 Northern Territory Literary Awards!

Library & Archives NT would like to congratulate all writers who have been shortlisted for the 2025 Northern Territory Literary Awards!

This year, over 240 entries were received across 7 categories. We would like to thank all writers who entered the awards for their contributions to NT literature.

The winners will be announced at the NT Literary Awards ceremony on Wednesday 24 September at 5.30pm at Library & Archives NT, 54 Cavenagh Street Darwin City. The ceremony will be livestreamed at Red Kangaroo Books in Alice Springs and on the Library & Archives NT page.

Come and share in the excitement, applaud the finalists, and be inspired by the Territory’s creative spirit. To learn more and book your ticket, visit lant.nt.gov.au/whats-on

The 2025 Northern Territory Literary Awards shortlist includes:

Brown’s Mart Theatre Award
Black light – Jada Alberts
Scrag – Ryanna Clayton
Refuge – Zan Kershaw

Charles Darwin University Creative Non-Fiction Award
Twenty-five cents – Dave Clark
Severance and being seen – Alex Eve

Charles Darwin University Essay Award
Rheumatic heart disease: a call to action on preventable, poverty-attributable deaths in the Northern Territory – Sophie Collins
Climate change, heat, gender and violence: supporting a safer future in the Northern Territory – Jeanette Shepherd

Flash Fiction Award
The important affair of the first male Moneypenny – Roland Bull
Silence – Satendra Kumar
My grandma used to love cake – Julie Lebreton

Kath Manzie Youth Award
Emotional equilibrium – Sabrina Leafe
Five, four, three, two, one – Jolyn Sun
Deserted – Lucy Tinapple

NT Writers’ Centre Poetry Award
Blood letting – Sophie Benkemoun
Time in our peace – Barbara Eather
River country – Susan Fielding
In the desert where I live – Meg Mooney
In the sauna at Lasseters – Mitch Mitchell

Zip Print Short Story Award
Eternal – Belinda Mawby
Hell or high water – A'Mhara McKey





NT Writers' Centre
Brown's Mart
Charles Darwin University
ZipPrint Darwin NT
Red Kangaroo Books

13/08/2025

Darwin Locals!

With the festival season in full swing I'm running my 2 for $25 offer on poetry pocketbooks at The Local until the end of August.

Get yours, tell your friends!
And enjoy the festivities!

travel maker press x

10/08/2025

Poetry for breakfast
is just my cup of tea
tasting words sweet
on tip of tongue
rolling them around till
their salt brings aahs
savouring their umami
for appreciative laughs
shared thoughts reflected
in eyes creased at corners
clapping of hearts

Poet's Breakfast

09/08/2025

Extract from "this place"
(c) futurespective
..makes me
want to be a better version of myself shakes me into action
propels me into promise...

Pocketbooks available from my website. Link in bio X

28/07/2025

I'm excited to share my new website: https://travelmakerpress.square.site

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22/07/2025

If you missed out on my Darwin Fringe show or came along and want to fill your own pockets with poems (and stories) head to The Local, The Handmade Haven on Knuckey Street. or The Bookshop Darwin.

For those further afield, check out the Etsy link in my bio 📚

travelmakerpress x

19/07/2025

Last chance to pick up the last of the remaining tickets to pockets full of poems !

And don't forget to vote for me:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TPS9HLR 🙏

See you there! x

It's the final day to snap up as much Fringe as you can 🐊

11:00am Sloppy: Exhibit opens
11:30am Sloppy: Artist Talk
11:00am Whodunnit: The...
11:30am Boyband Brunch
1:00pm BALINESE… ❌ CANCELLED ❌
2:00pm Treasure Island
3:00pm Bear Hug
3:00pm The Secret Life... ❌ CANCELLED ❌
4:00pm Darwin Beach Choir
4:00pm Future Science…⏱️ TIME UPDATE ⏱️
4:00pm Showcase of...
4:00pm Wanna Be a Star
4:30pm Comedy on Cue
5:00pm Artist Networking
5:00pm Divine Steps ⭐ SOLD OUT ⭐
5:00pm pockets full of...
6:00pm Award Ceremony
6:00pm Confessions of a...
6:00pm Fat Girl
6:00pm Magpie
7:00pm Jarryd Goundrey ⭐ SOLD OUT ⭐
7:00pm SEE THE LIGHT...
8:00pm Marmalade
8:00pm mEat Me ⭐ SOLD OUT ⭐
8:50pm I Got Bit By A...

18/07/2025

Wow! Darwin! The Darwin Heat followed by the Top End Final was exceptional! We had 16 poets in the Darwin heat with the top 5 (Tim, Matilda, G, Joseph and Sophie) going through to the final joined by Katherine's Top 2 Harley and Mahalia!
Congrats to G for taking the title of what is now a truly Top End Final! You'll be seeing and hearing more from G as we prepare to head to Sydney to compete in the
Central Aus - you're up next!
Gotta get the 1500kms home first.