Thanks to Suzanne Brandyn for my first photo of Border Watch on a book shelf! She found it in Port Maquarie at Big W. 🙂 Liz also found it in Kmart at Smithfield and sent me a lovely photo, but that’s on the home computer, not here in Sydney with me… Another friend, Amanda, bought Continue reading
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Thomas Storrie
Today I’m featuring another talented exhibitor at Glaskins Gallery. Please welcome Thomas Storrie. Like Tanya, Thomas found his artistic ability at a young age. At school he excelled at arts, graphics and most things to do with using his hands. He went on to complete a Diploma of Visual arts at Central Gippsland Institute of Continue reading
Tanya Sarianti Ashworth – Parallels of artists and writers
I’ve always wondered whether artists were any different to writers in their approach to their work so I thought I’d ask one. This week I’m welcoming to my blog Tanya Sarianti Ashworth, a North Queensland artist, whose paintings, ceramics and t-shirts have found homes all over the world. She’s now also available at Glaskins Gallery. Continue reading
Brisbane News 17th Feb
Phil Brown and I had a lovely chat at the Coaldrake Bookstore in the Emporium, Fortitude Valley. Read his article on-line at  Brisbane News – you’ll find it on Page 12. The photographer, Justine Walpole, is an artist!
Home away from home
This month I’ve spent 16 nights out of 28 living out of a hotel room. Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll tell you I’m a homebody and that amount of time away sits heavily on me. Â My answer to the loneliness that can bite at unexpected moments is to create an alternative family where Continue reading
Toni Tapp Coutts – life in the Top End (and win a copy of Border Watch!)
I met Toni through the LongLines programme at Varuna. We spent a week living in Eleanor Dark’s house along with Meg Mooney, a poet from Alice Springs, Liana Christensen from Perth and David Wright from Tasmania by way of Africa. The week was facilitated and mentored by Peter Bishop – a living national treasure!  It was a wonderful opportunity to talk Continue reading
Border Watch – The Celebration
Come and help me celebrate the launch of my debut novel ‘Border Watch’ – Hachette Australia, March 2010 www.heleneyoung.com When: 5th March 2010 at 5.30 pm – 7.00 pm Where: Glaskins Gallery 22 Trinity Beach Rd Trinity Beach http://www.glaskinsgallery.com.au RSVP: By 26th February to heleneyoung01@gmail.com
Queensland Writers Center – WQ
Author profile – February WQ PROFILE Hélène Young Hélène Young’s first published novel, Border Watch, will be published by Hachette Australia in March this year. With a job as a pilot, Hélène finds inspiration all around her. ‘I live in a tiny slice of paradise in Far North Queensland on a beach north of Cairns. Continue reading
Cairns City Life
Author profile – Cairns City Life
Sunrise, sunrise
I love being home….