Gilly Flower

. . . has resulted in using the mill fight for publishing success. Tassie's premier small press magazine, Island, is publishing my essay 'Writing for my life' in the December/January issue, and two pulp mill poems have been accepted for an anthology being published by Fellowship of Australian Writers (Tas) later this year. Success with Island really took me by surprise. I was persuaded to submit this piece by a friend, after I read it at one of our informal writing workshop afternoons, but having sent submissions to Island before, without success, I didn't really hold out much hope. I'm pretty chuffed actually, just quietly.

. . . since I've had time to write anything in this blog that I began with with such enthusiasm, fully intending to keep up regular posts, and record the mill saga, as well as some of life's daily trivia. But life got in the way, as life so often does, and the intro to my last piece is as relevant today as it was back in March. I'm having trouble keeping up with it.

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