I’m stunned and delighted to report that my poem “Soil Horizon (O)” has been chosen as one of the winners of this year’s
Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) Ekphrasis Challenge by judge Marjon Mossammaparast. The poem was a response to Helen Deniss’ beautiful award-winning artwork “Resilience”. All of the winners can be read and viewed at the Qld Poetry website: https://www.qldpoetry.org/qraa-ekphrasis-challenge-copy and my own piece can be read in full here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/605d85f92ea1c36bf259971f/t/63951f56fdd1fe1c9049a8f7/1670717270782/Soil+Horizon+%28O%29_Magdelena+Ball.pdf
Delighted to be featured reading and talking about my poem “Eastern Whip Bird” from 
I’m thrilled to be included among the finalists in the 2023 Newcastle Writers Festival/Joanne Burns Microlit Awards. I’m particularly excited about this award for several reasons, including the fact that this is a local, Hunter based prize, run by two organisations I greatly admire, and because the list of finalists is so very fine. Winners of the National and Hunter categories will be announced early in 2023 and the award ceremony and launch will be held in April at the Newcastle Writers Festival (at which I will be very happily spending the weekend as per usual).
I’ve been invited to join this exceptional line up of poets next Wed 30th Nov 2022, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm at the Knox Street Bar in Chippendale (21 Shepherd St). The line up includes David Adès, Afeif Ismail, Oscar Douglas, Willo Drummond, Emily Duff, Priyasha Janhavi, Gareth Jenkin, Mark Mordue, Kavita Nandan, and Alec James Wright. Tickets for the event, which can be attended in person or via the professional livestream, can be purchased here: 
I’ll be part of the launch team for 
Next Saturday the lovely 
This Saturday, November 5th, I’ll be reading poetry at the special live reading event to celebrate the Grieve 10th Anniversary being held at:
The 2022 Maitland IF program has just been released and I’m participating in a few exciting events. The festival runs from October 21st to 30th and features a wide range of literary and artistic events with workshops, family events, readings, panels and lots more. Most of my sessions are on Saturday the 22nd of October, and include hosting a Flying Island multi-book launch from 10-11am and a brilliant panel called Wild Women of Poetry with some of my favourite poets (and friends) Anne Casey, Jennifer Compton, and Ali Whitelock, hosted by the incomparable Gillian Swain. The full festival program is available here: 